Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 19:20:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: It's time for 5.1-R bits Message-ID: <200306052320.h55NKekP026148@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <3EDF7E79.3000501@freebsd.org> References: <3EDF7E79.3000501@freebsd.org>
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<<On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:31:37 -0600, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> said: > 1. Distributing to the mirrors. The easiest approach seems to be > to use a permission setting of 0660 on the files and 0770 on the > directories. However, this will exclude the second-tier mirrors > that mirror off of others using anonymous access. What should be > done about this? This works for me. If there are any second-tier mirrors, they'll just have to wait like everyone else. > 2. Granting anonymous access. If I publish an exact time, will > everyone be able to tweak their mirrors by hand? If not, will > rsync'ing the permission change be fast enough and not eat up too > much bandwidth? No and yes. My mirror job runs every six hours. > 3. BitTorrent. I personally like this idea. We only need a few > mirrors to act as seeds. Once the release happens and people start > using these seeds, they'll become seeds themselves and the load will > quickly flatten out. However, it's up to you guys. I really have no interest in this. SFS would be much more interesting, although I'm not willing to have NFS on my servers which is required for sfsd. -GAWollman
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