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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:20:19 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org>
To:        pav@FreeBSD.org, hubs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: package distribution crisis - CDN needed
Message-ID:  <p06240802c4205b76b4f8@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <1207605059.1031.38.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
References:  <1207605059.1031.38.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>

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At 11:50 PM +0200 4/7/08, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>Okay the situation recently was that the mirrors had no chance keeping
>up with all the package sets I've been uploading to ftp-master.
>
>We clearly need to move beyond rsync/cvsup synced ftp mirrors. This
>does not scale.

Maybe do something more "bit-torrent-y" ?  That seems to scale quite
well!

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =               drosehn@rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad@FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA



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