[Yum] Survey of Use

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:46:16PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Hedemark, Magnus wrote:
> 
> > RGB said:
> > 
> > > There are probably ways to cut this down in an emergency (a serious
> > > exploit, for example, that needs to be corked in 36 hours or 
> > > less at the
> > > client level).  
> > 
> > Have the primary site push/initiate the rsync to the T1, and the T1 initiate
> > the rsync to T2 in an emergency.  T3's are on their own to fetch from T2's.
> > That should have an incredible boost in how quickly packages get to the T3's
> > and then to the end node.
> 
> Ah, but this violates the first principle of scalable distribution --
> client pull, never server push.  Pulling is a client initiated action

  Separate the data transfer which should still be pull from the 
notification layer which can be push based (email sounds just fine to
propagate to a registered set of mirrors at level N+1).

Daniel

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