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On 5 Sep 2012, at 20:09, Tim Bishop <tim-lists@bishnet.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 06:35:48PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> ... we need it, especially if run well (though the majority of mirrors
>> sadly aren't run well); ...
> 
> I run mirrorservice.org so I've interacted with quite a few open source
> projects that have their stuff mirrored by third parties. The FreeBSD
> system seems fairly primitive compared to others; whilst you have
> various things to check the status of the mirrors there's nothing (as
> far as I know) automatically happening with it. Other projects have
> systems to automatically remove mirrors from listings if they're not
> updating properly or are missing content.
> 
> If FreeBSD was to do something similar you'd be able to retain a well
> established mirror network whilst effectively weeding out broken sites.
> 
> That said, 10TB worth of packages? That's a lot and I can imagine most
> mirrors couldn't handle that quantity of data.

10TB seems like a fairly modest requirement in 2012 with 3TB drives
going for 100GBP.

- Mark