<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Sync is now done. I serve both HTTP and HTTPS as well as RSYNC.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Theo<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9/10/2018, at 5:45 PM, Theo Morra <<a href="mailto:theo@morra.nz" class="">theo@morra.nz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hey there. Second AltArch mirror in APAC. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://altarch.mirrors.theom.nz/centos/" class="">https://altarch.mirrors.theom.nz/centos/</a></div><div class=""><a href="rsync://rsync.mirrors.theom.nz/centos-alt/" class="">rsync://rsync.mirrors.theom.nz/centos-alt/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sync is being performed now. Should be done in about an hour</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As usual, my mirror is in both Auckland and Christchurch in NZ.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Theo</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9/10/2018, at 10:19 AM, Anssi Johansson <<a href="mailto:avij@centosproject.org" class="">avij@centosproject.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi, we're looking to extend the geographical coverage of CentOS AltArch<br class="">mirrors a bit. For those who don't know, the Alternative Architecture<br class="">SIG produces CentOS 7 for all kinds of odd architectures such as<br class="">aarch64, armhfp, i386, power9, ppc64 and ppc64le.<br class=""><br class="">We have a separate list of mirrors providing AltArch content at<br class=""><a href="https://www.centos.org/download/altarch-mirrors/" class="">https://www.centos.org/download/altarch-mirrors/</a> and if you have a look<br class="">at that list, you will notice that there are several mirrors from Europe<br class="">and U.S., but less from other regions.<br class=""><br class="">We're currently in the process of shifting AltArch-related traffic from<br class=""><a href="http://mirror.centos.org/" class="">mirror.centos.org</a> to external mirrors. Most of those <a href="http://mirror.centos.org/" class="">mirror.centos.org</a><br class="">nodes double as msync nodes, and by directing users to use external<br class="">mirrors instead of mirror.c.o, more bandwidth would be available for<br class="">syncing external mirrors. In addition to the saved bandwidth, many of<br class="">the external mirrors have much more bandwidth than msync.c.o nodes, so<br class="">the end users will also see a benefit.<br class=""><br class="">If the existing AltArch mirrors have a look at their traffic stats, they<br class="">will probably notice that there hasn't been much AltArch traffic. That<br class="">will see a slight increase soon, though. We will soon push out updated<br class="">centos-release packages for AltArch that will use mirrorlist.c.o to find<br class="">a nearby external mirror, instead of the currently configured<br class=""><a href="http://mirror.centos.org/" class="">mirror.centos.org</a>. The old mirror crawler only checked main architecture<br class="">repos (and only a subset of those), but the current mirror crawler will<br class="">check main architectures and AltArch architectures, and all the<br class="">repositories that are active.<br class=""><br class="">Some AltArch .iso download links have also been changed to point to<br class="">isoredirect.c.o, which has a newly added capacity to redirect AltArch<br class="">.iso image requests to external mirrors. The remaining AltArch .iso<br class="">redirects to external mirrors will be done prior to CentOS 7.6.18xx release.<br class=""><br class="">That said, I don't expect AltArch to generate significant additional<br class="">traffic compared to the main architectures. My primary concern here is<br class="">the geographical coverage, ie. the number of countries represented.<br class="">Let's say that it'd be nice if there were mirrors from a handful of<br class="">countries from each continent.<br class=""><br class="">If there isn't yet an AltArch mirror in your country and you think your<br class="">mirror could close a "gap", please consider mirroring AltArch as well.<br class="">At the moment AltArch consumes around 100 GB of disk space. Please note<br class="">that when CentOS 7.6.18xx gets released, both 7.5.1804 and 7.6.18xx will<br class="">be kept on mirrors for a while, thus temporarily doubling the disk space<br class="">required.<br class=""><br class="">Another technical point is that if you start mirroring AltArch, the<br class="">content must be available in a different directory (and thus at a<br class="">different URL) than the main content. One common convention is to have<br class="">directories "centos" and "centos-altarch". You will also need to invoke<br class="">rsync twice; first for the main content (as before) and then for the<br class="">AltArch content at <a href="rsync://msync.centos.org/altarch/" class="">rsync://msync.centos.org/altarch/</a><br class=""><br class="">Although all current CentOS mirrors can already access the above<br class="">msync.c.o module for AltArch, it would be nice if you could do your<br class="">initial rsync from some other external mirrors listed on<br class=""><a href="https://www.centos.org/download/altarch-mirrors/" class="">https://www.centos.org/download/altarch-mirrors/</a> , even if the nearest<br class="">external mirror providing AltArch over rsync isn't exactly nearby. Once<br class="">you have done an initial sync from an external mirror, you can switch to<br class="">doing incremental syncs from <a href="rsync://msync.centos.org/altarch/" class="">rsync://msync.centos.org/altarch/</a><br class=""><br class="">Once you are done, please provide the http/https/rsync URLs to your<br class="">mirrored AltArch content so those could be added to the list.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks for reading this far, and thanks for all the bandwidth!<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">CentOS-mirror mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:CentOS-mirror@centos.org" class="">CentOS-mirror@centos.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror" class="">https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>