On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:08:36AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > > Hmm. One thing, though, why keep the images locked on that machine just for > > a sync that happens every few months? Plus the administrative overhead of > > giving out accounts. > > because it works well to have one central place that mirror admins can > go to at any point to sync. as admins we also have to deal with catastrophic > disk failure and it is good to know you can go back to sync against cdimage > with the images there. that said, i am guessing that all of cdimage would > comfortably fit now on a single 120G drive. if it is only providing a sync > point for mirrors then i am not sure if it needs more than one (or two, > to do raid1) drive for this.
Yeah, but we don't _have_ that 120 GB drive. That's a bit of a showstopper, don't you think? :) > > Alternatively we could improve the ghastly blubbery > > http://www.debian.org/CD/mirroring/ to be more to the point... > > i thought it had been rewritten a couple of times. i remember seeing drafts > by at least a couple of people fly past debian-cd. wonder what happened :-/ It should simply say "sync whatever way is fastest for you, once per point release, leave it be in the meantime". I don't see what the fuss is about :) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
