From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 2 12:45: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 164AD37B401 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:44:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA66616; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:44:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:44:44 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: John Polstra Cc: , Subject: Re: CVSup7.FreeBSD.org is back in service In-Reply-To: <200102021754.f12Hscu03043@vashon.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, John Polstra wrote: > In article <3A79145A.39CF9671@elischer.org>, > Julian Elischer 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