[mirror-admin] master server sync stats and recommendations

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Apr 22 11:57:15 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 12:50 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> 
> I didn't understand what's MM role in this. It's the master that has
> to send the signal to the mirrors, because only the master knows when
> it's finished updating. Why put another element in the chain?
> 

Because MM knows about the mirrors, whereas the process that updates
things does not.  Better to not duplicate that data.  The updating
process can alert MM that a path has changed, MM can then in turn notify
all the mirrors that care about that path.

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