I'm not concerned about maintenance/unscheduled downtime - I was just a bit worried when the Emdebian root disappeared from http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ because the machine itself, and it's Debian root, were still up and fine, and so I wondered if that mirror of Emdebian had been discontinued.
I'm not very familiar with Debian repository/mirroring intricacies. -Patrick On 2011-03-09, at 1:07 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:48:12 -0700 > Patrick McNeil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it normal for the mirror to disappear completely during >> Maintenance? > > Any machine undergoing maintenance will disappear during such times, > as far as internet connections are concerned. Copying the data to > another machine would take many hours, even if there was another > machine around. In this case, there would be little point in copying > anything because there are other machines with the same data which > remain available. Round-robin methods sound useful but, in practice, > make little difference. > > If you need access to a particular machine so often that unscheduled > downtime is such an issue then you have bigger problems than any one > machine can solve. > >> Would it be better to use the official repository as the >> default? > > The mirror was set up because www.emdebian.org was having problems at > that particular time. No single machine is ever immune to unscheduled > maintenance. Once you set up your own mirror you'll notice exactly the > same thing. > > -- > > > Neil Williams > ============= > http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ >
