On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 09:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
jerenkrantz 2002/11/27 09:49:08
Modified: docs/dev mirrors.html
xdocs/dev mirrors.xml
Log:
Incorporate some suggestions from the peanut gallery for the mirrors doc.
Stefan: RedHat->RPM
Sander: -current should be a symlink to the symlink in our directory
Roy: historical releases should not be mirrored (said on [EMAIL PROTECTED])
FWIW, I disagree on this last point, for reasons I've pointed out on this
and the mirrors@ list in the last few months. Mainly, keeping historical
releases around causes _zero_ additional bandwidth requirements, and only
requires a minimal amount of harddrive space, which is not a resource
that should be of any concern to our quality mirrors.
Besides the above points, having our mirrors keep historical releases around
gives us benefits -- like automatic offsite backups, as well as quick access
to historical references (this happens all the time when we have security issues).
As a mirror maintainer, I prefer having old releases.
I'm also willing to reconsider this point if there are actual instances of
our mirrors running out of harddrive space. But then again, if this is
just one or two mirrors having this problem, then perhaps they aren't
the kinds of mirrors we want. In other words: Fewer high-quality mirrors
is better than many medium-quality mirrors. I'd rather see 10 official mirrors
sync'ing everything than 100 mirrors doing partial sync'ing.
-aaron
