[mirror-admin] reducing "allowed stale" time from 7 days

[Matt Domsch]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:53:03PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> J.H. (warthog9 at kernel.org) wrote on 12 April 2009 17:38:
>  >I would say this *shouldn't* be a problem, but if mirrors are going to 
>  >be syncing more often (just to make sure they are up to date)
> 
> One way to avoid this is to make scheduled updates of the master, say
> every 6h. This way everyone knows that it's useless to sync every 5min
> because there'll be no changes.

This is what the new rsyncFilter URL can be used for.  If you're
syncing from download*.fedora.redhat.com you can ask that every hour
what has changed in the last hour, and only sync that.

I heard John's request to extend rsyncFilter to let you specify your
upstream mirror.  I started working on that, and am still thinking
through how to get that info out of the database properly.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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