Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 10:13:16 -0600 From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> To: mirror-maintainer@mirror.averse.net Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Coordinating and distributing the release Message-ID: <3ED8D49C.40804@btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305312354360.14922-100000@spam.averse.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305312354360.14922-100000@spam.averse.net>
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mirror-maintainer@mirror.averse.net wrote: > (mail was NOT cc'ed to hubs@ and re@ as the freebsd.org MX refuses to > accept mail when my IP has no PTR record) > > On Sat, 31 May 2003, Scott Long wrote: > > >>After 5.0 we discussed ways to coordinate the release so that iso images >>could fully propogate to the mirrors before before they were available >>to the public. However, I'm not sure if a decision was ever made. Is >>this still a reasonable goal? Can it be done using unix file >>permissions? If so, how do we propagate out the file permission change >>quickly? > > > Would this mean that secondary mirrors (those who don't have direct access > to one of the ftp-masters) won't be able to obtain the files too? > Can we just enable <user>:archive 0770 on the files/directories and have them safely propogate out to all of the mirrors that way, while still leaving them invisible to normal visitors? I certainly do not want to exclude the secondary mirrors. > >>Another idea that came to mind in talking with others is investigating >>using BitTorrent to augment the distribution of iso images. For those >>not familiar, it's a distributed file sharing protocol that specializes >>in balancing loads between every node so that everyone who is >>downloading also contributes upload bandwidth to others. It seems to be >>catching on quite quickly with the linux iso people since it has a net >>effect of reducing bandwidth load on the primary mirrors. For those >>that are interested, go to http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/index.html > > > I'm open to running a btdownloader. > > From what I know about about BitTorrent, the person who I upload > to/download from is essentially randomly selected from all the people > using a particular tracker. This means that we wouldn't be localising > traffic to the region of each mirror - which may or may not be a goal. > > ftp.sg > > I'm not sure if localizing traffic is good or not. Like I said, its' popularity is defintely growing in the linux iso area. Scott
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