Le Dimanche 24 Août 2003 12:24, Ben Reser a écrit : > On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 04:37:53PM +0100, Brian Tyndall wrote: > > Perhaps we need to fix an hour to do the rsync from the main mirror ? > > like 2x per day, 0h GTM and 12h GMT, ppl at mandrakesoft will update > > their public server, and from here, other mirrors ftp will get the > > stuff without these problems ? > > Do you realize that this won't work? If everyone syncs at the same time > and only twice a day it will take days for things to propogate to all > the mirrors. Most better mirrors are probably syncing once an hour. > > Further, the problem you are trying to solve is happening because you're > syncing at the same time as the mirror upstream from you. So limiting > everyone to sync at roughly the same time would just make this worse. I think you didn't understand completly was I was talking about. I have proposed to only update the primary mirror once (or twice) a day. Not asking every mirror to do that, they need to be up to date.
Debian works with way too, and they don't have these problems. http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror.en.html#when Emmanuel
