Hi, On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:09:05AM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Hi. I am not sure if anybody answered your mail yet, so I just go ahead.
Your mail is the first reply - thanks for that!
This wiki entry just contains a few "unofficial" mirrors. The official source for such information is https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/ These lists are automatically generated.
I see. Confusing, nevertheless :)
Tier 1 mirrors sync hourly. So it does not make much sense to sync more often than your upstream mirror. However, you might reduce the delay if you have try to sync eight after your tier 1 mirror has finished. E.g. if you upstream still is https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/uk2.net/ you might sync a few minutes after **:30 every hour.
OK.
Also note that we setup this multi tier scheme to reduce traffic on our main server which has a bandwidth limit of 12 MBit and also has to serve the website, email and bug tracker. So we have to be careful about how many mirrors sync how often.
I see the problem, but do not really understand how that relates to my question.
I didn't look into details of this. This might give us more control about when which mirrors sync from us. However, this might not work well with our multi tier setup. E.g. we could notify our tier 1 mirror about changes, but it would be up to them to notify their tier 2 mirrors. (none of the tier 1 mirrors that serves as tier 2 upstream is controlled by us)
You can learn a lot for Debian here, there is no need to reinvent the wheel.
I hope this clarifies a few things. If not don't hesitate to ask me.
Yes, it does. Thanks! Bye, -- Carsten Otto otto@informatik.rwth-aachen.de LuFG Informatik 2 http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/ RWTH Aachen phone: +49 241 80-21211