From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 10:16:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1337A16A4CE; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:16:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01D143D62; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:16:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i0UIFtTr021510; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:15:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id i0UIFt8n021509; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:15:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:15:55 -0500 From: Ken Smith To: Michael Lucas Message-ID: <20040130181555.GB20403@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <200401301748.i0UHmtut019964@repoman.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401301748.i0UHmtut019964@repoman.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:16:40 -0000 On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:48:55AM -0800, Michael Lucas wrote: > FreeBSD doc repository > > Modified files: > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml > Log: > "Why isn't cvsup.freebsd.org a round robin DNS entry?" > > If this question is asked one more time, I'm going to go bonkers with > an axe at some user group meeting. > > As a Google search doesn't give much of a definitive answer from any > of the CVSup gurus, because it's drowning in the number of people > asking this question, basing this on my own knowledge. Feel free to > expand this. > > Revision Changes Path > 1.605 +18 -0 doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml Jun and/or John can correct me if I'm wrong but my observations so far suggest... Because users, through lack of understanding about cvsup servers, are at least somewhat likely to on occasion try cvsup-ing twice at short intervals. Since there is virtually no way to guarantee two separate servers sync-ed from cvsup-master at exactly the same time and have exactly the same content this can result in some very odd results, with attempts at editing out changes (because the second server was a bit farther behind than the first server) and that sort of thing. The same could potentially hold true for "Tier-2" servers that sync from cvsup.freebsd.org instead of from cvsup-master.freebsd.org. The FTP site contents are much much much less dynamic so this sort of an issue doesn't come up there. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |