On Mon 21 Jul 2008 at 02:55PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > Could you expand on how you see the depot UUID being used in a load
> > > > balancing situation? (For instance, pkg.opensolaris.org is load
> > > > balanced across a set of identical depots which use a common catalog,
> > > > package manifests, and files, but keep separate statistics, and are
> > > > hosted on multiple systems. With what aspect of a depot's operation
> > > > is the UUID associated?)
> > >
> > > At the moment, it it is to provide a unique identifier for the RSS/Atom
> > > feed generate by the repository.
> > >
> > > All of the pkg.opensolaris.org servers would need to share the same id
> > > so that the feed generated by any of them would be considered the same
> > > one by feed readers.
> >
> > Why not just disable the feed on all but the primary? Since it's
> > 100% cacheable it doesn't seem like a big deal.
>
> In this example, how would you determine the webserver that is the
> primary?
Umm, I don't know... are we having the notion of the authoritative
ultimate source of knowledge amongst a group of mirrors? If not,
then I guess never mind.
-dp
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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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