Colin Percival wrote: > 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.
How are the servers chosen by freebsd-update? The same question for portsnap. What I'm hinting at is: is there some geography involved? I could provide you with a server in Eastern Europe but it's very badly connected with USA. > 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. Hmm, if requests such as these are going to happen often, you probably should. If the front-end needs only HTTP, could you modify the backend so the updates are propagated with rsync and a self-maintained web of update servers can emerge similar to "normal" mirrors?
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