Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 22:04:18 +0100 From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: Tim Bishop <tim-lists@bishnet.net> Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, hubs@freebsd.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>, Cluster Administrators <clusteradm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkgng mirrors Message-ID: <7ACDA7E9-5D7C-4740-B1B9-AAE2F77C100D@exonetric.com> In-Reply-To: <20120905190901.GK66364@carrick-users.bishnet.net> References: <20120905112013.2d44783c@laptop> <09CB99A0-75BC-426C-BD44-9ACC7CD741D1@exonetric.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209050925180.98832@ai.fobar.qr> <20551.35538.119912.329917@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209051731340.98832@ai.fobar.qr> <20120905190901.GK66364@carrick-users.bishnet.net>
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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
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