this script is probably too naive, but isn't just good enough? btw, gabriel provides a 9grid.es file to put in /dist/replica
http://9grid.es/index.html?item=srv ; cat $home/bin/rc/pull #!/bin/rc rfork e # network is sources mirrors=(network 9grid.es kix.in lsub.org) flags=() while(! ~ $#* 0 && ~ $1 -*){ if(~ $1 -c -s){ flags=($flags $1) shift } flags=($flags $1) shift } if(test -f /srv/kfs.cmd) disk/kfscmd allow for(i in $mirrors){ if(replica/pull -v $flags /dist/replica/^$i $*){ if(test -f /srv/kfs.cmd) disk/kfscmd disallow exit '' } } exit mirror On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:28 PM, David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:38 PM, <j...@0xabadba.be> wrote: >> >> Mr Leimbach, >> >> ===8<=== >>> >>> How would one know one wasn't getting old data? I've not really looked >>> into replica much though honestly to know how it works, I've just followed >>> the wiki about "staying up to date". Perhaps the wiki could be mirrored as >>> well, and we could get a distributed update script? >>> Perhaps this is an area of improvement for Plan 9 in general. >> >> ===8<=== >> >> You can find the wiki here : >> http://9.9souldier.org/wiki.plan9/plan_9_wiki/ >> Sources can be found here : sources.lsub.org -- though i'm not sure >> how up to date they are -- they seem very reliable >> >> respectfully, > > Yeah I guess I was not very clear. How does one find the most up to date > mirror :-). How do we know which one is closest to the authoritative > source, or should we care? > Dave > >> >> james francis toy (nil) > > -- Federico G. Benavento
