Re: mirror.debian.net maintenance

[Simon Paillard <simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr>]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:44:57PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> ..do I guess this right that the idea is, prepend architecture  
> names to the current name scheme ftp.$(CC).debian.org to 
> e.g. $(ARCH).ftp2.no.debian.org to enable 
> "deb http://$(ARCH).ftp2.no.debian.org/debian stable main" 
> style entries in "/etc/apt/sources.list"?
> 
> ..this would make mirroring a wee bit easier, as people can 
> spread a full mirror across several disks or machines, e.g. 
> i386.ftp2.no.debian.org, amd62.ftp2.no.debian.org etc, rather 
> than limit mirroring to volonteers with big ass disk budgets.

I don't see why it would ease to spread across several disks, LVM, raid
do exist :-)

In any case with such a method, you make the rsync from such upstream
mirrors *much complicated*

Regards,

-- 
Simon Paillard