Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:44:08 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, "" <hubs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Poor state of some top-level FTP mirrors Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0303101139360.41-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> In-Reply-To: <20030310013355.GA70336@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030309215448.GB30033@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.GSO.4.50.0303101116080.41-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> <20030310013355.GA70336@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I suspect you're wrong. Can you provide supporting evidence? not really - i should try and go back to some logs we kept, but most of the evidence was anecdotal by asking on this list how package trees are maintained. in any case, the up to dateness of mirrors is quite an important issue and i guess worth pursuing. a lot of the other projects either have systems in place or are also looking at putting systems in place to provide verification and feedback on mirrors that fall out of date. and (i am speaking out loud) with the efforts in organizing a US master mirror, an EU master mirror and possible one other, it is starting to again look good for organizing tiers of mirrors to spread out the load of updating and hopefully making it more reliable/faster. we stopped updating the packages tree daily at one point where it reached the stage that the first update was not completing before the next one started to delete files already - this was some months ago though. regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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