Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:43:03 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Lu=EDs?= <jonny@jonny.eng.br> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirror Site Requirements - Final Draft? Message-ID: <3F243957.20704@jonny.eng.br> In-Reply-To: <20030727202923.GD11351@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20030727192724.GA10869@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <3F24313F.7040109@jonny.eng.br> <20030727202923.GD11351@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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Ken Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 05:08:31PM -0300, Joo Carlos Mendes Lus wrote:
>
>
>>And isn't once a day too much for
>>something that generally do not changes after beeing released?
>
>
> That I'm "waffling" over. :-/
>
> If the mirror-announce@ list works well enough then syncing once a
> day for mostly static data is, as you point out, wasteful. But
> once a week would be too much of a delay at Release Time. I'm
> inclined to leave this requirement as-is for now and review it
> later, after mirror-announce@ has been in place for a while.
Surely, there should be some kind of release effort from all mirror
managers. And mirroring everyday is just not enough. You would just
mirror an older release. This is something that cannot be automated for
secondary mirrors (disk space, the final frontier).
Jonny
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