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On 11/26/2014 09:18 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> As some of you may already know we have localized aliases for the rsync |
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> mirrors which cover countries (like rsync.ca.gentoo.org) and continents |
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> (like rsync.europe.gentoo.org). This usually optimizes the process as |
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> latencies are lower, speeds are higher and users are more likely to |
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> distribute around the mirrors. |
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> |
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> My propossal is that we do a similar thing with the distfiles mirrors |
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> (for example distfiles.europe.gentoo.org and distfiles.ca.gentoo.org) so |
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> users can easily choose one option when at least one mirror is available |
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> in their country without having to worry about issues if that mirror |
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> starts failing and benefit also from the lower latencies and speed. |
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That would be great! |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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