Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:44:44 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: CVSup7.FreeBSD.org is back in service Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102021432440.65939-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <200102021754.f12Hscu03043@vashon.polstra.com>
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, John Polstra wrote: > In article <3A79145A.39CF9671@elischer.org>, > Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: > > > > I have the folowing suggestion for CVSup.. > > the ability to specify several servers. > > Cvsup can have a quick exchange with each to inquire about load and check the > > latency and bandwidth > > and the last time updated, and choose the best.... > > Since you control both ends this is possible.. > > This is a frequently requested feature, but I've always been reluctant > to provide it. Human nature being what it is, I'm afraid soon > everybody would have 15 servers listed in their supfiles. So 15 > servers would get hit on each update instead of just one. It is > true that the load query wouldn't hit the servers nearly as hard as > an actual update. But it would require forking a process at least. [...] Finding the fastest server isn't always as important as finding one that works. I had my mirror pointed at cvsup7 (or maybe it was cvsup6) when it went away for a while, and I never knew the updates were failing until after several cvsups from my mirror I noticed nothing was changing, which is very unusual. :-) A nice feature would be to add multiple cvsup servers to use as fallbacks with some way of knowing if the server you've just fallen back to has a later copy of the tree than you do. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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