Re: [CentOS-devel] setting up an emergency update route

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Jeff Sheltren jeff@tag1consulting.com wrote:

Obviously the rsync method where each mirror pretty much "does their own thing" is dated and not optimal.

I've always thought that the default mirrorlist scheme in the yum configuration wildly increases the load on mirror sites because when sites update multiple machines, any local http cache they go through will pull a copy from every mirror in the list instead of re-using the first copy.

But, I'm even more surprised that someone hasn't glued a bittorrent-like transport into yum to automatically chunk stuff up and pull from multiple places at once with the mirror caching taking care of itself.