Hi all, When 7.1-RELEASE came out, FreeBSD Update was overwhelmed by the burst of traffic as thousands of people tried to upgrade at once. I'd like to make sure this doesn't happen again, so I'm looking for some extra temporary mirror capacity.
If you can provide me with (a) 40 GB of disk space, (b) 1 TB of bandwidth (I expect 10+ Mbps for the first few days after the release announcement), (c) an HTTP server (or root/jail access so that I can install one myself), and (d) a firewall rule which blocks outgoing RST packets, for the month of May (depending on when the release happens, I might not need these extra mirrors beyond the middle of the month), please contact me. Extra points if you have a fast disk subsystem, since FreeBSD Update involves serving up lots of small files, and it has been disk seek limited in the past. The requirement (d) results from a bug in phttpget which (I think) caused a lot of failed attempts to upgrade systems to 7.1-RELEASE; I've fixed this bug now, but people upgrading from old releases will still have the buggy phttpget, so for now it's necessary to work around the bug by making sure that RSTs don't get sent (the buggy phttpget dies if a connection is reset instead of retrying it properly). Since I'm sure people will ask: I'm not looking for extra permanent mirrors at the moment. The FreeBSD Update mirroring code currently consists of "Colin sshes into servers and copies bits around from the shell", so until I've made some improvements to that I don't really want to have any more mirrors than necessary. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
