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On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:43, Scott Taylor wrote: |
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> I've even got a dedicated cache appliance for http, but files that had |
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> been requested through ftp aren't cached there. I think probably the |
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> first stopgap that i'd apply would be to comment out the line that |
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> parses the "nomirror" option. If its used to keep files from being |
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> pushed onto the rotation servers, great... but its an annoyance within |
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> my network. Then i'd see about making my own server the first in the |
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> list of sourceforge mirrors, followed by a mirror that i know works |
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> better for me. Perhaps the mirrorselect tool could automatically check |
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> for good sf.net servers too. For that matter, I'd quite like to see a |
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> fill-in-the-blank line plus the ability to choose the order from within |
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> mirrorselect... perhaps even a order of preference that round-robins |
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> equally weighted servers. |
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Squid can cache ftp too (and others), given that you set the filesize to a |
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size that is reasonable for portage (and not really for webbrowsing, by |
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default squid doesn't cache most source files). |
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This does not mean that mirror selection can and should be done better, |
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however it is hard to come up with a real good algorithm that does not |
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involve people changing things by themselves (but still allows them to) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |