On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 15:57, Florian Pritz <bluewind@server-speed.net> wrote:
It probably is. Perhaps a push-primary solution (much simpler..) combined with a default twice a day sync (just to make sure?) for tier-1 mirrors might work.. the I believe point here is to get ideas out there. I'd go for arch master -> mirror with more bandwidth -> rest and all run the script I already posted (no pushing) like every 1-5 minutes. Load should be near 0 and we could have for example
On 02/04/2010 09:42 PM, Lee Burton wrote: main.mirrors.archlinux.org point to the fast mirror. If I'm not mistaken the script should always try to resync when something doesn't seem to be ok (rsync should exit > 0 in that case), but I might have forgotten some edge cases.
PS: A mailinglist for mirror stuff (like this discussion) with all mirror admins would also be quite nice.
-- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net
As a mirror admin (mirrors.rit.edu) , I second that request, although perhaps one low traffic list (mandatory script updates, bulletins, etc) and one for discussions? Or perhaps some other scheme entirely. -- Lee Burton lburton@mrow.org 301 910 0246