Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 04:16:42 -0400 From: "Eric A. Griff" <eric@cfpower.com> To: "Nik Clayton" <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Bill Fumerola" <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> Cc: "Nik Clayton" <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jim Mock" <jim@blues.ghis.net>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: followup: advocacy.freebsd.org (fwd) Message-ID: <006701bee0ad$2ed7a100$c100000a@cfpower.com> References: <19990806112413.A38499@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908061240130.45391-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> <19990807085511.C20112@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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----- Original Message -----
From: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>; Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net>;
<advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: followup: advocacy.freebsd.org (fwd)
> On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:41:38PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > > Note that simply having the mirrors pull the content off the
central
> > > database is not, IMHO, acceptable. This removes most of the
advantages
> > > of mirroring the site, as we then have (a) a single point of
failure
> > > that can bring down all the mirrors, and (b) the page will still
only
> > > appear as fast as the connection between the mirror site and the
> > > central database. This completely destroys the usefulness of the
> > > mirrors.
> >
> > Good DBAs address these problems with replication.
We could implement interval updates to other databases too... IE, use
something, like cvsup, and mysqldump.... Lot of ways.... mysqldump is pretty
quick..
>
> Yep. Which limits our choice of DBs that can do this (I don't know if
> Postgres or MySQL can, anybody?).
>
> Also, this process (ideally) needs to be efficient. Hopefully about as
> efficient as CVSup with the same content would be.
>
> N
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