On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:25:04PM -0700, Dan Price wrote: > 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.
It's not just mirrors here, but a bunch of servers which are merely load-balanced, like the ones we already have. They're effectively a single server, which means that none is in any sense a primary, nor is anyone "at the front" sufficiently to capture all the feed requests. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
