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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Saturday 17 March 2007 14:13:49 Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> I'm working on getting some data mirroring infrastructure in place so we
> aren't dependent on ibiblio uptime and speed.  What I'm working on will let
> us use the paid servers to point to currently active mirrors, to allow
> us to take advantage of offers for mirrors on high bandwidth pipes even if
> they aren't up all the time (home lines, uni lines, other free stuff,
> etc.).
>
> Anyway, as part of this I'm rearranging the content on ibiblio to be a
> little more organized and easier to mirror / monitor.  I'm leaving symlinks
> to all the old locations so no one should notice anything different, but
> those of you that do uploads should at least be aware of it.
>
> The new layout should look something like:
>
> without symlinks:
>
> download.sourcemage.org
>  cauldron/
>   image/

I assume this is for chroot/Xen images?

>   iso/

As long as we leave the iso -> cauldron/iso symlink up for 
download.sourcemage.org, this should be fine, but I don't think it'd be a 
good idea to 'hide' the ISO directory under a name which people new to SMGL 
won't understand. Most will understand "iso" as where to get our installer, 
but "cauldron"?

>  grimoire/
>   codex/      (aka codex.sourcemage.org)
>   distro/
>   fallback/   (aka fallback.sourcemage.org)
>  misc/
>   projects/

Perhaps drop the "misc" and have "projects" at the top, since by definition 
they'd be "projects other than the already listed".

>  sorcery/
>   sounds/
>  tmp/

Do we really still want this publicly available and mirrored?

>  tome/
>   logos/
>   screenshots/
<snip>

Perhaps also "documentation", depending on if we want to have 
plain-text/TeX/etc. versions of our documentation available.

-sandalle

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