On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:24:49PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:32:49 +0100, Michael Gellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> said: > > That's a good idea, but is there any easy way to get clients to > > automatically load-balance between more than one Debian mirror? Or do > > you have to manually change the sources.list files for the clients you > > wish to use a different mirror? > Prepare two versions of the sources.list files and name them for > eg. MIRROR0 and MIRROR1.
If apt-get can do load-balancing on its own, that would be overkill Create a hook (for task updatebase) which > uses fcopy for copying one of these files to the new system before > installing sofware packages. Add a small script to /fai/class which > defines the class MIRROR0 or MIRROR1 depending on ip-address modulo 2. We did this before, having kickstart servers for odd/even IP addresses. Load-balancing, yes. Fault-tolerance, no. > Please, post these little scripts to this mailling list :-) Sure. Got some other nice patches - faimond adding time stamps, setup_harddisks not forcing xfs formatting. And there's AlFAI waiting for an upgrade... Steffen
