[email protected] píše v st 25. 03. 2009 v 00:23 -0700: > Pav Lucistnik <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brian Whalen p??e v ?t 24. 03. 2009 v 12:08 -0700: > > > On a related topic, I wonder what the cost would be of acquiring > > > enough hardware so that the probability of actually getting a > > > package with portupgrade -aP would go up substantially ... > > > > It's more a question of creating a new delivery platform, because > > the currently used ftp mirrorring is useless for packages. The > > whole process of synchronizing from upstream server introduces > > _days_ of delay into the process, > > presumably addressable by adding bandwidth, which would need to > be included in "the cost ... of acquiring enough hardware ..."
Bandwidth is okay, but rsync is just too slow. Serial synchronization on this amount of data does not work feasibly. > > and there is no guarantee that you don't catch an upload in > > progress, which renders whole mirror useless for a time period. > > I would have thought that judicious use of snapshots could avoid > problems with in-progress updates. Yes, but current ftp mirrors does not have enough space to hold several snapshots of same package set. Thus, the need for new platform. -- Pav Lucistnik <[email protected]> <[email protected]> See file. Click file. Get file.
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