That's a great idea to provide regional rsync modules! I would prefer that over having to sync all languages. The space would be available for all, but I prefer to allocate it efficiently.
Thomas On 01.10.10 01:05, Peter Pöml wrote: > Actually, there is interesting room for improvement here (over the > OpenOffice.org way of distributing language packs). We can make rsync > modules that include only certain languages. There is no reason to sync > Polish language pack to India, and vice versa. Instead, we should > distribute langpacks that are actually requested in the region that the > mirror serves. > > The only thing we need is that one or two of us sit down and make kind > of a table with languages and regions where they are used, in rough > relation to where they are mirrors. Not a very difficult task. > > That wouldn't only save disk space on mirrors, it would also massively > reduce sync times. > > (Taking this one step further, one could automate that -- using download > counters to generate rsync filelists for each mirror, containing exactly > that stuff that is requested from there. I'd love to implement that, but > it'd need at least a week, that I don't have...) > > Anyway, a more static approach will work fine as well, I guess, since > languages don't change frequently, and mirrors don't usually move > around ;-) > > Thank you all for your support! > Peter -- SWITCH Serving Swiss Universities -------------------------- Thomas Lenggenhager P.O. Box, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland http://mirror.switch.ch -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to [email protected] All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/mirrors/
