All:
Okay, so I've been running sa-update of all channels via the Coral
distributed caching system for several weeks now and I haven't experienced
any problems.
I would suggest that the problems others have been reporting may be due to
an unreliable cache participant "near" their location, so I would say
using the Coral cache for sa-update distribution (especially of large
channels, like Sought) will work, but you have to verify that it works
*for you*.
Agreed, it sucks that all of the cache participants aren't reliable. In
the interests of making the system more reliable, if your site cannot
reliably get data from Coral you may want to check your proxy logs (or
whatever) to see which cache site is actually serving files to you, and
report them as unreliable.
Unfortunately it seems the dev mailing list is quiescent, but the project
lead is still at Princeton: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mfreed/
Just a data point. Personally I really like the idea behind the Coral
cache and want to see it succeed.
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