From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 07:47:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8EAE37B401; Sat, 31 May 2003 07:47:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA1143F3F; Sat, 31 May 2003 07:47:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4VEgrZ04686; Sat, 31 May 2003 07:42:53 -0700 Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.253.56]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA19648; Sat, 31 May 2003 07:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3ED8C082.1080405@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 08:47:30 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hubs@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: re@freebsd.org Subject: Coordinating and distributing the release X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 14:47:46 -0000 Hubs, After 5.0 we discussed ways to coordinate the release so that iso images could fully propogate to the mirrors before before they were available to the public. However, I'm not sure if a decision was ever made. Is this still a reasonable goal? Can it be done using unix file permissions? If so, how do we propagate out the file permission change quickly? Another idea that came to mind in talking with others is investigating using BitTorrent to augment the distribution of iso images. For those not familiar, it's a distributed file sharing protocol that specializes in balancing loads between every node so that everyone who is downloading also contributes upload bandwidth to others. It seems to be catching on quite quickly with the linux iso people since it has a net effect of reducing bandwidth load on the primary mirrors. For those that are interested, go to http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/index.html Thanks! Scott