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Sometime, about a +</I>><i> year ago, that mirror disappeared. I had then contacted Switch to find +</I>><i> out what had happened (that was before the time of Mageia). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The reply was that the usage of the Mandriva mirror had dropped to such +</I>><i> a low level, that Switch had decided to remove the mirror - the list of +</I>><i> software mirrored at Switch is quite remarkable, but without some +</I>><i> housekeeping the amount of mirrored data gets out of control. I had this +</I>><i> discussion with +</I>><i> Thomas Lenggenhager <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">thomas.lenggenhager at switch.ch</A>> +</I>><i> (Thomas is the head of the group responsible for the mirror). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Later, when Mageia had started to prepare its release, I had a +</I>><i> discussion with Christoph Graf - the vice-director for Network services +</I>><i> - and asked him about the policy of Switch with regards to adding a +</I>><i> mirror for a new Linux distribution - which, necessarily, starts from a +</I>><i> close-to-0 usage level. We agreed that Switch feels it its mission to +</I>><i> give new distributions a chance. At that time we did not press the +</I>><i> discussion further, waiting for the first Mageia (pre-)release to become +</I>><i> available. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I agree with you that Switch is an ideal mirror for hosting a Mageia +</I>><i> mirror, I suggest you send the information pointed to by Michael to (but +</I>><i> only when information relative to item (5) of the howto exists - if +</I>><i> switch does not have the information how to register, chances are big +</I>><i> that the request ends up in some todo-sometime-later list) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">netservices at switch.ch</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I have read the howto at +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/mirror.readme">http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/mirror.readme</A> +</I>><i> I have corrected some typos (it is a short document, I append the +</I>><i> corrected text to this mail). Regarding the objective contents, I have 3 +</I>><i> comments +</I> +Thanks, I have updated it. ( and will need to add other corrections ) + +><i> (1) is a 2-hour interval for syncing not exagerated? I think to remember +</I>><i> that with Mandriva there was one sync during the night; a longer period +</I>><i> reduces the load on the server, and reduces the periods during which +</I>><i> inconsistencies might be possible; probably a distinction between +</I>><i> cauldron (tier-1) and production (tier-2) requirements should be made +</I>><i> (coming back to Switch: Switch did not host cooker). +</I> +I think the instruction for now are only for cauldron, since that's the +only thing we have so far. But yes, maybe for stable release, this +should be changed. + +><i> (2) is it wise - at the tier-2 level - to suppress checksum protection? +</I>><i> I would say that with the relatively low number of tier-2 servers the +</I>><i> additional load on the server should not be prohibitive (particularly if +</I>><i> the interval of syncs is made longer). Mistakes due to transmision +</I>><i> errors at this level have a high multiplication rate and a substantial +</I>><i> nuissance potential - and certainly do not help to improve the image of +</I>><i> the distribution. Again, there is a difference in what is tolerable in a +</I>><i> development and in a production environment. +</I> +Well, in fact, given the way tcp work, I do not see how it could suffer +from a transmission problem. I mean there is checksum, we are not using +udp to transmit anything ? + +><i> (3) should the form not also specify the email and telephone number of a +</I>><i> contact person to be contacted in case of problems? +</I> +A email for sure. A phone number is less useful ( ie, you need to speak +english, to call on long distance ). That's just a mirror, after all. + +For tier1, that's a different story of course. + +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003619.html">[Mageia-discuss] Switzerland Mirror Switch.ch +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003624.html">[Mageia-discuss] Switzerland Mirror Switch.ch +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3620">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3620">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3620">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3620">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |