Mirror Site Requirements - Final Draft?

[Ken Smith]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:06:42PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2003.07.27 15:27:24 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> > 4) Directory archive sits in is /pub/FreeBSD.
> 
> At least ftp9.freebsd.org doesn't do this... Is it that important, since
> the FreeBSD mirror directory is mentioned in the Handbook?
> 
> I can see the benefit for users from having all mirrors having the
> /pub/FreeBSD directory, but some large mirrors might like to subdivide
> their mirrors and it would be a shame to disqualify them on this reason
> alone.

I inherited that requirement from the existing docs so I don't know
exactly what prompted it as a requirement.  I *think* it has to
do with sysinstall in install-via-ftp mode but that's just a guess.
Does anyone else know for sure?

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