But all the mirrors sync the db file from the main mirror. He means uploading all the files, but not a matching db,so the servers can have however long, hours, days, to make sure they get a complete sync, before puttin a DB up.
On 2/24/06, Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 03:34 +0100, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just a quick idee about mirror and distribution of packages on them. I > > noticed that some users had some problems theses days when they updated > > their system due to xorg update: some packages were not yet on their > > mirrors so they had problem when trying to restart xorg. > > > > So, just an idee, but why not delayed the db creation waiting the update > > of all mirrors ? and put packages on ftp in right order. What do you > > think about it ? > > Hi, > > This would be possible if we had more (any?) control of all of the > mirrors. All of them currently synchronize on their own schedules. > Part of the problem was also the load created by large numbers of rsync > requests all at the same time for large amounts of files, so some > transfers only partially completed. > > Dale > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > -- iphitus - ArchCK Maintainer, Arch Trusted User, Arch Developer. Home:iphitus.loudas.com _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
