<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Jim Kusznir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkusznir@gmail.com">jkusznir@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
So perhaps it would make sense to release the .iso's immediately via<br>
torrent while the mirror tree still sync's itself? Users who want to<br>
be "early adopters" would need to accept it would be a few days before<br>
the package tree is available. It would also allow the .iso's to be<br>
released in the mirror tree after the rest of the tree is already<br>
sync'ed.<br>
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--Jim<br>
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Karanbir Singh <<a href="mailto:mail-lists@karan.org">mail-lists@karan.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 01/18/2011 04:16 PM, Jim Kusznir wrote:<br>
>> and sync. Perhaps the tree without iso's should be sync'ed on the<br>
>> mirrors first, with the iso's available only via torrents for the<br>
>> first 24-48 hrs....<br>
><br>
> This is perhaps something we can trial. But it would make <a href="http://kernel.org" target="_blank">kernel.org</a><br>
> quite unhappy. Also the other problem we have is that with over a 100<br>
> machines in 80+ DC's around the world, just seeding the .<a href="http://centos.org" target="_blank">centos.org</a><br>
> network takes about 2 days. We did optimise some of the routes that we<br>
> use and have been doing regular pipeline testing to see what are the<br>
> best sort of rsync tree's we can setup, but 2 days is realistically the<br>
> earliest we can open msync up to external mirrors.<br>
><br>
> Then there is the issue of non-public private mirrors rsyncing off msync<br>
> and contesting with the public mirrors :/ Last time I checked ( and I<br>
> accept this was a while back ) - we had about 3800 people pulling from<br>
> msync, we dont have nearly as many public mirrors.<br>
><br>
>> In any case, I suggest/expect that the torrent seeds/downloads would<br>
>> not effect mirror operators or the servers themselves unless the admin<br>
>> decided to also seed the torrent. Of course, all mirrors would<br>
>> benefit by offloading those users that "have to have it as soon as its<br>
>> released".<br>
>><br>
>> Also, perhaps this would be a good time for the new mirror management<br>
>> system?<br>
><br>
> I know that Ralph is working on something of this nature, and there are<br>
> atleast a couple more people helping and there have been some spike<br>
> tests for various options. So its definitely in the pipeline, not sure<br>
> if there is a delivery-date though.<br>
><br>
> - KB<br>
> _________________<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>I would like to second Jim Kusznir's idea.. Upload the torrent on various infamous torrenting sites <br><br>*cough* *cough* bay *cough* of *cough* pirates *cough*<br>
<br><br>Regards<br>