From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Anant Narayanan To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <13426df10905231717t1832e433lbf92793267a5fdb8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 02:28:12 +0200 References: <3aaafc130905231659j58fb3b4hc1ef637033b86696@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10905231717t1832e433lbf92793267a5fdb8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] sources down? Topicbox-Message-UUID: fe1f0564-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 :) -- Anant