Dan Price wrote: > On Mon 21 Jul 2008 at 05:52PM, Shawn Walker wrote: >> In my mind, it shouldn't be a problem to sync the repository >> configuration across all the servers. >> >> You would want them to all have the same metadata, etc. anyway. >> >>> Another approach would be, as Stephen suggested, to have one server >>> known as the primary to the administrators. We'd have to re-direct all >>> feed/info requests to that server in the pool. >> Only the feed really matters. > > Ok-- setting load balancing aside, I'm not sure why I'd want to > subscribe my browser or feed reader to a feed served by a mirror? In my > mind, mirrors come and go over time.
Response time, geographical location, etc. come to mind. I'm going to assume you mean mirror as in "identical depot server" -- not mirror as in a depot in mirror mode (which won't support feed operations anyway). > If performance/bandwidth/feature set were to become an issue, then we > could use feedburner (http://www.feedburner.com) or some such > to improve things. I have no particular objection to whatever is decided here. But I personally don't understand the difficulty of synchronizing the repository configuration across servers since it will have to be synchronized somehow anyway. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list pkg-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
