Comment 8 for bug 140458

I didn't notice that the metalink spec supports a "preference" attribute for each mirror. It would be great if the "preference" could be set to something sensible given the mirror performance. Again it does not need to be anything too fancy or scientific, it's sufficient to give a higher preference to a few mirrors with good history.

<url type="ftp" location="us" preference="90">ftp://ftp.example.com/example.ext</url>