Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:03:32 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CTM Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0107200700120.17067-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <3B56FED6.9DBD73ED@math.missouri.edu>
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > I have noticed that the mirrors for CTM are very out of date. The up to > date CTM's are at ftp://ns3.saargate.de. But that ftp server has low > bandwidth, so it would be very helpful if the mirrors could be updated. hi stephen, as a mirror admin, i have to admit, i'm still not clear on what CTM is and who uses it. since you appear to.. o what is it ? o where is the "master" site ? o how much disk space does a full current CTM archive require ? o how does one mirror it ? rsync ? o how does one make it available to end users ? (plain old http/ftp?) o why would someone need access to it over the CVSup tree ? > There is a folder pub/FreeBSD/CTM/x-faulty/ that need not be mirrored. Why does this folder exist if it shouldn't be mirrored ? > There is another issue. The host computer that creates the CTM delta's > sends them to ns3.saargate.de, and the copying process can take a long > time (like 12 hours for files like cvs-cur.7300xEmpty.gz). For this > reason, there is a big possibility that if you download this file, you > will only get half of it, because it is still in the process of being > copied. And you will have taken several hours to do this copy, in the > process occupying a huge portion of the bandwidth of ns3.saargate.de. I > guess a few days later when your mirroring software runs again, you will > see that your copy and ns3.saargate.de's copy are different. Does that > mean that it will be copied all over again? unless locking is implemented, very probably. how large is the file ? what you've described above doesn't lend itself to mirroring/replication at all well in its current setup. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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