Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 18:58:29 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's time for 5.1-R bits Message-ID: <3EDFE735.30604@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <7mn0gw9ni0.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> References: <3EDF7E79.3000501@freebsd.org> <7mn0gw9ni0.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp>
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The 5.1-R ISO's for i386 are up with the permissions that I stated below. I'm going to do a spot check later tonight and see how they show up on the mirrors. Scott Jun Kuriyama wrote: > At Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:31:37 -0600, > Scott Long wrote: > >>i386 and pc98 bits for 5.1-R are ready to go online. Alpha and sparc64 >>will happen over the next 2 days. We are scheduled to make the >>announcement and press release on Monday, June 9. So, it's time to >>decide on how to push out the bits to the mirrors without allowing >>public access, how to quickly grant public access, and what, if >>anything, should be done about BitTorrent. >> >>1. Distributing to the mirrors. The easiest approach seems to be >>to use a permission setting of 0660 on the files and 0770 on the >>directories. However, this will exclude the second-tier mirrors >>that mirror off of others using anonymous access. What should be >>done about this? > > > Even if 0770 dir, anonymous access can be done if mirror is done with > group which is same as anonymous ftp user. Should we write the rule > for mirror site maintainers about this? > > >>2. Granting anonymous access. If I publish an exact time, will >>everyone be able to tweak their mirrors by hand? If not, will >>rsync'ing the permission change be fast enough and not eat up too >>much bandwidth? > > > I think we should not hope every mirror maintainer can tweak. CVSup > and rsync can handle permission change effectively. > > >>3. BitTorrent. I personally like this idea. We only need a few >>mirrors to act as seeds. Once the release happens and people start >>using these seeds, they'll become seeds themselves and the load will >>quickly flatten out. However, it's up to you guys. > > > Hmm, I don't know how BitTrront works and has good performance for us. > It seems we should continue the duscussion about this (and we should > not use it for 5.1-R yet). > > > Anyways, it is difficult to coordinate with mirror maintainers for new > configuration/installation in few days. If 0770 dir can works, doing > such for few days (for tier-1 mirrors) may work... > >
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