On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:27:14 -0500 Lee Burton <lburton@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > To make it "multi-tiered" and to reduce load on the primary mirror > could have slightly more intelligent polling than just checking one > upstream machine. > In this example Let: > Primary = Arch Primary Mirror/Mirrors (updated directly by the > dbscripts). Tier-1 = Large High-Bandwidth/Traffic mirrors that other > mirrors mirror off of Tier-2 = Smaller mirrors > It would then go something like: > A tier-1 mirror would check against the Primaries once a minute (for > the md5sum). > A tier-2 mirror would check against two tier-1 mirrors and see if they > agree, if they don't it would ask a primary for a tie-break. It would > then could notify (via an automated email?, perhaps one in a 24-hour > period? if it's been out of date for XX hours) the mirror owner of the > out of date mirror? seems needlessly complex to me. Dieter
