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Re: Mirror horrors
- To: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>, Linux-IL <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: Mirror horrors
- From: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:03:56 +0300
- Hebrew-Date: 5 Iyyar 5761
- In-Reply-To: <20010428151613.A15918@pollux.galanet.net>; from linux-il@future.galanet.net on Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 03:16:13PM +0300
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote about "Mirror horrors":
> - Should we split resources with HUJIs and TAUs mirrors? Do they
> provide the necessary content? Having fair enough user limits?
> Maintained? Fast?
In the case of the recent Redhat 7.1 release, HUJI proved they have the
necessary content, on time, with a fast connection even though dozens
(hundreds?) of users bombarded their server with gigabyte-worth of downloads.
In this case, it was better (at least for me) than the IGLU mirror. Kudos
to Ely Levy (and whomever is helping him in HUJI).
It doesn't mean that having the distributions in two places is wasteful,
however - it allows for redundancy (in case one machine or its network
connection is down), load-balancing (not automatic, currently) and better
speeds (if, for example, people in ILAN connect to HUJI and people on, say,
Actcom, connect to IGLU.
But because neither HUJI nor IGLU have infinite disk space, you both need
to priortize what you carry. Some mirrors (such as the latest ISOs of common
distribution) should be duplicated, while some should not (e.g., IGLU can
hold the previous version of Redhat while HUJI can hold the previous version
of Mandrake). It would be nice to have a single Israeli webpage saying where
the mirror of which thing resides (this will also mean that additional small
sites, like Ivrix.org.il I host, can volunteer to hold small mirrors of only
specific things).
I also believe some things should not be mirrored AT ALL - e.g., why do we
really nead a single open directory of Redhat 7.1? Isn't the loopback
producing two seperate open directories (and wasting no space) enough? Anyway,
if somebody wants to get a single file from a distribution, what's wrong with
getting it directly from abroad? An Israeli mirror is much more important
for huge files like the entire ISOs. Also keeping two copies of everything,
in both .gz and .bz2 formats is, in my opinion, in very low priority, and you
should do that only if you really have enough disk space.
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