From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <13426df10905231731n4231c573tc1c1fcc83839e10c@mail.gmail.com> References: <3aaafc130905231659j58fb3b4hc1ef637033b86696@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10905231717t1832e433lbf92793267a5fdb8@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10905231731n4231c573tc1c1fcc83839e10c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:27:45 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60905241627m4792e33dr6d033fc56db666c9@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001e68378a8750633d046ab0d710 Subject: Re: [9fans] sources down? Topicbox-Message-UUID: fe6f87e6-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001e68378a8750633d046ab0d710 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:31 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote: > > On 24-May-09, at 2:17 AM, ron minnich wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > >>> > >>> There are plenty of mirrors, I'm pretty sure the "sources is down > >>> AGAIN" comments could be mitigated by people improving their 9fs > >>> scripts. > >> > >> would be interesting to have a server that provided reliability by > >> using whatever mirrors are out there and falling over transparently as > >> things failed. > > > > This approach relies on said server being up all the time. Much easier to > > fix client-side 9fs scripts :) > > Sorry, by "server" I did not mean "a server machine" I meant "a 9p > server program which you could run" > How would one know one wasn't getting old data? I've not really looked into replica much though honestly to know how it works, I've just followed the wiki about "staying up to date". Perhaps the wiki could be mirrored as well, and we could get a distributed update script? Perhaps this is an area of improvement for Plan 9 in general. > > ron > > --001e68378a8750633d046ab0d710 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:31 PM, ron min= nich <rminnich@g= mail.com> wrote:
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Anant Na= rayanan <anant@kix.in> wrote:
> On 24-May-09, at 2:17 AM, ron minnich wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> There are plenty of mirrors, I'm pretty sure the "sou= rces is down
>>> AGAIN" comments could be mitigated by people improving th= eir 9fs
>>> scripts.
>>
>> would be interesting to have a server that provided reliability by=
>> using whatever mirrors are out there and falling over transparentl= y as
>> things failed.
>
> This approach relies on said server being up all the time. Much easier= to
> fix client-side 9fs scripts :)

Sorry, by "server" I did not mean "a server mach= ine" I meant "a 9p
server program which you could run"

How would one know one wasn't getting old data? =A0I've not reall= y looked into replica much though honestly to know how it works, I've j= ust followed the wiki about "staying up to date". =A0Perhaps the = wiki could be mirrored as well, and we could get a distributed update scrip= t?

Perhaps this is an area of improvement for Plan 9 in ge= neral.
=A0

ron


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