Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:42:57 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Subject: Re: Mirror Site Requirements - Summary thus far... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0307172241100.29893-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> In-Reply-To: <20030717121225.GB410@nitro.dk> References: <20030716155448.GA11005@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20030717121225.GB410@nitro.dk>
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2003.07.16 11:54:48 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > > 4) Tier-1 sites carry "everything" (see below) and are candidates for > > being in the TLD but we don't want *too* many sites in the TLD so > > not all of the Tier-1's will be in the TLD. All sites that are in > > the TLD will be Tier-1's, well connected, etc. > > With regards to carrying everything, I think it should be noted that > ftp.beastie.tdk.net (half of ftp.freebsd.org), does not carry most of > the files below pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/. > > I don't know if it's important, but it would be a bit silly to create > requirements that ftp.freebsd.org can't even fulfill :-). i guess hence the consultation.. but i agree as i also don't carry branches at all anymore. this has been discussed in the past as the usage of the branches tree seems to be a lot of pain for very little gain from my experience and other comments made here. it is a lot of very small files which are very rarely looked at by http/ftp users - so why are we carrying them any more since this stuff is made available via cvs/cvsup ? regards, -jason
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