>The point of mirrors is to provide an alternate location for the content.
I'd like mirrors to provide multiple alternate locations. I put the improvement request here: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3772 Cheers, Szczepan On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > szczepiq wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Mirrors are giving me headache recently. See this: >> >> <mirrors> >> <mirror> >> <id>corporate-repo</id> >> <name>corporate-repo-backup</name> >> <url>...</url> >> <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf> >> </mirror> >> <mirror> >> <id>corporate-repo-backup</id> >> <name>corporate-repo-backup</name> >> <url>...</url> >> <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf> >> </mirror> >> </mirrors> >> >> Above configuration is a dead simple fail-over system. If >> corporate-repo is down, I want the corporate-repo-backup to mirror >> everything. Unfortunately it doesn't work :( It seems only last mirror >> is active when "mirrorOf" property is the same. Is this how it suppose >> to work? After all, the point of mirrors is to provide multiple >> locations for the same content, isn't it? Any input? > > The point of mirrors is to provide an alternate location for the content. > This does not imply fallback. You can use for quite some OS organizations > mirrors of their content (Apache, SF,net, ...), however, if you select a > mirror and it is not available or out of date and your file is not found, > you're also not automagically redirected to a different one, that is > available and in sync. > > - Jörg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
