From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Aug 7 1:17:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from genesis.setjmp.net (genesis.setjmp.net [208.13.245.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20109155DA; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 01:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eric@cfpower.com) Received: from Apophis (eric@[10.0.0.193]) by genesis.setjmp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA35264; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 04:16:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eric@cfpower.com) Message-ID: <006701bee0ad$2ed7a100$c100000a@cfpower.com> Reply-To: "Eric A. Griff" From: "Eric A. Griff" To: "Nik Clayton" , "Bill Fumerola" Cc: "Nik Clayton" , "Jim Mock" , References: <19990806112413.A38499@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990807085511.C20112@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Subject: Re: followup: advocacy.freebsd.org (fwd) Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 04:16:42 -0400 Organization: CFPower MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Nik Clayton To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Nik Clayton ; Jim Mock ; 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 > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message