[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

Thu Oct 21 13:09:32 CEST 2010

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 18:34, Olivier Thauvin
+<nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+>
+> Now come the question: "what is a valid mirror ?", eg, what a mirror
+> should have as file to be valid ?
+
+Not sure if we discussed in depth MirrorBrain
+(http://www.mirrorbrain.org/ ) for managing mirrors index and
+redirections.
+
+If we were going to use it, could we, for instance, leave mirrors some
+liberty to mirror what branch they want (with some guidances and
+preferences of course) and let our MirrorBrain instance check and
+build the list of valid mirrors for the file actually requested?
+
+This, provided that _consistent_ branches of the tree are mirrored,
+and not only a file here, a file there.
+
+On one hand, this would introduce at least to other things to check:
+ - having enough distributed mirrors that map the whole tree;
+ - having download/install tools take this into account.
+
+On the other hand, this could allow more mirrors to take part in this,
+in that it may require less storage space and less bandwidth usage.
+
+It's not the only reason to use MirrorBrain anyway, but I wondered if
+this could be a complementary reason.
+
+Not sure, insights welcome.
+
+
+Cheers,
+
+Romain
+