[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

[Lee Burton]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 15:57, Florian Pritz <bluewind at server-speed.net> wrote:
> On 02/04/2010 09:42 PM, Lee Burton 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
> 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 at mrow.org
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