Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:16:38 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.ORG>, Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Statement regarding FreeBSD release ISO images Message-ID: <20030203111638.GB82289@mail.webmonster.de> In-Reply-To: <200301302050.h0UKoHUD089619@apollo.backplane.com> References: <3E2E58E8.7020903@btc.adaptec.com> <20030122191836.GC12075@perrin.int.nxad.com> <3E2EF005.9010107@btc.adaptec.com> <20030130155948.GL41512@genius.tao.org.uk> <200301302050.h0UKoHUD089619@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon(dillon@apollo.backplane.com)@2003.01.30 12:50:17 +0000:
> I think it would be far easier to simply have each site create a
> resource files, /pub/FreeBSD/resources.txt or /pub/FreeBSD.resources,
> which lists mirror services available at that site. Then a simple script
> on freefall or hub could run through the list of download sites and
> collect all the resources file together into a master list.
*bzzt* This would make the "outdated mirror" problem even worse, because
there'd be an automated system collecting human input (that might be
wrong). The mirroring idea behind rsync and cvsup is to reduce human
interaction, not to increase it. Why should the world out there start
editing text files, if there's a new platform/collection to add?
IMVHO, it would make sense to spend a few inodes on ftp-master for
semaphore files that serve as timestamp and subcollection identifiers.
- These files must not contain with a dot, rather with an underscore
('_mirror_data'), as this would retain their visibility on the
different mirror's systems
- The files' contents can be used for additional meta data
- The files' locations are in their corresponding collections'
subdirectories
- The timestamp of these files is reset every half hour by feeding a
find output or file list into 'xargs touch'
- A master collection list can be compiled by a simple find command
- An automated collection cataloger can the retrieve the collection
identifier files from the mirrors
- Retrieval results can be compiled to a comprehensive mirror directory
and/or to a sysinstall mirror list
- Retrieval results can be compiled into detailed statistics on who
mirrors what and when and in which mode
- Using the refined information, heavily lagged mirrors or unmaintained
mirrors find their way out of the list automagically (for example,
based on thresholds, with different levels of deactivation)
This solution would be
- simple
- flexible
- extensible
- clean
- interesting
Please tell me what you think.
Regards,
/k
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