On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Tru Huynh wrote:
RFC for possible future direction: rational: several public servers have more bandwith than the centos.org machines, by serving more files from the big pipes, we reduce the bottleneck for everyone.
One more thing to consider in restructuring the mirrors is the research networks (e.g. Internet2, National Lambda Rail, Geant). A lot of the mirrors are universities, with access to these research nets.
I know my organization doesn't care about bandwidth usage on the research nets, just on the commodity internet links. Perhaps have a few I2-connected mirrors sync from the centos.org masters, and then other I2-mirrors sync from them (instead of the masters)?
The Fedora Project has already run into many of these issues. Something kinda like their tiering structure might make sense. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring/Tiering
DR