new porstnap mirror

[Dimitar Vasilev]

2009/12/11 Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org>

> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:35:10PM +0100, Juraj Lutter wrote:
> > Dimitar Vasilev wrote:
> >>>
> >> I'm located in Bulgaria and to be honest one user asked.
> >> So far my regular patients are a news agency, 2-3 private hospitals,
> some
> >> Turkish government servers, 2-3 telcos
> >> and the regular FBSD bunch - 100-200 local people plus the various stray
> >> bunch from around the world.
> >> We will see how it goes.
> >
> >  Just my $0.02, I often install machines in local offices connected via
> > 1-to-2 Mbps ADSL lines and fetching snapshot at speed like 100kB/s is not
> > really good to look at ;-)
>
> On an internal network it's possible to have a single machine do the
> fetch and then share /var/db/portsnap via read-only nfs.  This will be
> much more bandwidth efficent than maintaining an actual mirror.
>
> -- Brooks
>
Hi guys,
just to clarify and avoid further misunderstandings:
I'm one of the persons maintaining the bg.freebsd.org.
I'd like to add port-snap as a service if possible and be included in a pool
like eu.portsnap.FreeBSD.org.
Speaking PGP if needed.
Thanks and have a nice week-end!
Best regards,
Dimitar Vassilev