On 1/15/11 12:04 PM, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
Personally, I think the mirror infrastructure in place is more than sufficient for releases and there's no need to complicate things with seeding torrents (full or partial) before the official release on the mirrors.
Do people have problems with slow downloads just after a centos release? I can say our mirrors have always had plenty of bandwidth to spare during a centos release.
At least some of the mirrors are insanely fast - at least since the 5.x release. The usual issue is that some are not and on big updates they can be out of sync. Even if the torrents don't start much ahead of the full release they should help keep the slower mirrors from being overloaded with iso downloads. How do the links from distrowatch.com work? Are they independent bandwidth or do they go to the usual mirrors?