* Jeremy Kitchen <[email protected]> [2010-04-23 17:07]: > I'm a regular user of opensolaris, we have it running on about 25 > machines managing about 2PB of storage for us and love it. I'd like > to give back to the community in whatever way I can, and I think one > of those ways would be to provide a mirror machine for > pkg.opensolaris.org (I already seed the ISOs in bittorrent, but that > doesn't help with the pkg repository loads) > > Since I don't see anything about this on the website, I asked in > #opensolaris on freenode and was directed to asking here. Who should > I talk to about running a mirror for you fine folks? Also, I'm not at > all against just hosting a machine, but we do have plenty of spare > hardware laying around which can be used for the task.
Jeremy, Thanks for the offer. We'd be excited to have an additional active site in any location, and I'm sure those close to your systems would be very grateful. The easiest way to offer additional bandwidth is via a reverse proxy cache, using Apache. This means dedicating some amount of disk and bandwidth, and optionally running a cron job with some regularity to keep your cache warmed up to current bits. It avoids a bunch of the complications of the rsync approach we used for the first year. Frederic posted the basic configuration for using Apache as a reverse proxy cache in http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13848 I know Erik uses a similar recipe to run pkg-eu-2.opensolaris.org. Maybe we can get him to share it... If you'd like testers to try it out, there should be a bunch of folks in #pkg5 on Freenode. Once you're ready, we can add your URL(s) to http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+pkg/FAQ and make an announcement. Thanks Stephen -- [email protected] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
