[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:27:14 -0500
Lee Burton <lburton at mrow.org> wrote:

> To make it "multi-tiered" and to reduce load on the primary mirror
> could have slightly more intelligent polling than just checking one
> upstream machine.
> In this example Let:
> Primary = Arch Primary Mirror/Mirrors (updated directly by the
> dbscripts). Tier-1 = Large High-Bandwidth/Traffic mirrors that other
> mirrors mirror off of Tier-2 = Smaller mirrors
> It would then go something like:
> A tier-1 mirror would check against the Primaries once a minute (for
> the md5sum).
> A tier-2 mirror would check against two tier-1 mirrors and see if they
> agree, if they don't it would ask a primary for a tie-break.  It would
> then could notify (via an automated email?, perhaps one in a 24-hour
> period? if it's been out of date for XX hours) the mirror owner of the
> out of date mirror?

seems needlessly complex to me.
Dieter