Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:46:27 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for FreeBSD Update mirrors for 7.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <gst1el$qqr$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <49F1D6A5.7070400@freebsd.org> References: <49F1D6A5.7070400@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Colin Percival wrote: > Hi all, > > When 7.1-RELEASE came out, FreeBSD Update was overwhelmed by the burst of > traffic as thousands of people tried to upgrade at once. I'd like to > make sure > this doesn't happen again, so I'm looking for some extra temporary mirror > capacity. How are the servers chosen by freebsd-update? The same question for portsnap. What I'm hinting at is: is there some geography involved? I could provide you with a server in Eastern Europe but it's very badly connected with USA. > Since I'm sure people will ask: I'm not looking for extra permanent > mirrors at > the moment. The FreeBSD Update mirroring code currently consists of "Colin > sshes into servers and copies bits around from the shell", so until I've > made > some improvements to that I don't really want to have any more mirrors than > necessary. Hmm, if requests such as these are going to happen often, you probably should. If the front-end needs only HTTP, could you modify the backend so the updates are propagated with rsync and a self-maintained web of update servers can emerge similar to "normal" mirrors? [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknyCQMACgkQldnAQVacBcjGYACeNC7Qjkrhl4YWhLtM4dQKT54L 0hcAoN9saq/xb84Anq7wIk/p1d5z4ijI =zSi4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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