I concur with what Claire and Jonathan said. And, I also feel the trouble that the current msync admins go through during such massive updates. The "chasmd" project that Karan pointed to in another thread is really interesting, and would make life easy if done properly.
We also don't mind having a push update request. But, we already update every 2 hours, and can even go for every hour, if needed. Would a push also be required for such frequency?
rsync is a great tool, but it hogs down the bandwidth of the server it is syncing from. Is it insane to think about other file-sharing protocols for syncing, like BitTorrent, for keeping your mirrors upto date?
Regards
HASSAN
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 02:36, Claire M. Connelly
<cmc@math.hmc.edu> wrote:
"KS" == Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@karan.org>
KS> So here is a question for you - as a mirror admin, would
KS> you host an rsync target that msync.c.o could push into ?
KS> It could be ither based on a user/pass acl or a key. And
KS> we would give you a list of ip's that will push to your
KS> machine.
We host a Debian mirror that's pushed; the upstream mirror
connects to us using an SSH key that then triggers a script that
does the sync.
I would certainly be happy with CentOS doing something similar
(subject to some concerns about syncs interfering with one
another). I would be less enthusiastic about setting up and
maintaining an rsync server that an upstream mirror could sync to
directly.
Claire
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