jean-seb wrote:
Le 16/01/2011 07:37, Karanbir Singh a écrit :
On 01/15/2011 01:57 PM, Bart Swedrowski wrote:
You could start seeding to primary mirrors + share ISO images over torrent network. This way torrent would be used as a help for loaded mirrors...
That is actually a very major misconception. Torrents to seed mirrors is quite a bit slower than seeding them in the rsync tree's.
- KB
Hello,
If your ISP apply QOS on torrent traffic to limit bandwidth, yes. but it it's not the case, Torrents are as fast as rsync.
Regards,
js.
There is no need to complicate thing with torrents for mirrors. This can only help with inter-mirror infrastructure and not for end user. End user need to use yum, so messing with torrents is futile.
Since mirrors will be (over)loaded when ISO's are released, and mirrors will distribute bandwidth accordingly, downloading them will be slower. I suggested that publishing torrents only in devel list, and not for all to see, for a few days, and in case normalizing mirrors will take several days, would benefit us on the list waiting this release since first RHEL Beta was released (6-7 months ago).
I installed it on my laptop and even created local repo for additional packages, and am using it ever since. But since it is beta and plus customized, it is prone to sporadic crashing. And I still use it every day. My home PC is CentOS 5.5 with large number of additional packages, 40-50 I created my self, like latest Skype version rpm and OpenOffice 3.2. But I constantly have USB problems on my MB, needing to disable EHCI module so HP-1020 printer would work and USB connected discs would not disappear in the middle of the copying to and from them, an multiple times a day, every day event. Not to mention Krusader 2.x featury to create a queue for copying multiple files/folders and then leave it unattended, something I miss for 3-4 years when I switched to Linux/CentOS only PC.
There are also several server/desktop PC's in small companies I maintain in need of CentOS 6 package base, and several more waiting for Linux installation but postponed until CentOS 6 is released. Once it is released, I will be finally able to install stable (rpm based) linux to people interested in modern Linux.
If I had any free time (I am one-man show - WISP/IT Specialist without more then 3-day vacation in last 8 years) I would have jumped in and helped to release CentOS 6 as fast as possible.
Those are the reasons I anxiously await ISO's so I can instantly reinstall my home PC's. Since packages will be the same on the mirrors and on the ISO's, and since I will need a day or two to backup existing system and write down all the applications I will need, I was hoping to avoid rush hour when CentOS is released. Seeding would be me giving back to community.
My suggestion was only that, an suggestion, and if it is decided to wait I will reluctantly wait for it.
P.S. Me anxiously waiting for release to be ready has nothing to do with excellent job CentOS team is doing, and in no way it is meant as ANY kind of critique.
Sincerely, Ljubomir