Kernel.org would is completely willing.
However would it not make more sense to just set up a second rsync target and explicitly exclude *DVD* or something akin to that so that those not wanting the DVD's got everything BUT the dvd isos? That might be a lot quicker and simpler than doing a hard linked set of trees.
As for letting other mirrors sync from the tier1's is there any consideration for authentication as it would be nice to just run, again, a separate target that can see everything in the centos directory but check either the incoming ip address or (as I currently have setup) a username/password combination so that only mirrors are using those targets and not the general public. If you did it via an ip list you could just have that sync with the rest of the Centos tree, if you did it via username/passwords you'd need to have the tier1's sync a separate target or something with that list.
- John 'Warthog9' Hawley Kernel.org Admin
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 11:50 -0600, David Richardson wrote:
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Lance Davis wrote:
There has been some confusion about the CentOS and CentOS-incdvd rsync targets , and the fact that some mirrors have dvd isos included in the CentOS target, so what we would like to do is to have a list of tier 1 mirrors that :-
- provide rsync access to the complete CentOS release tree
- would be prepared to act as a seed for new mirrors
- would be prepared to set up separate CentOS and CentOS-incdvd targets for
other mirrors to sync against, either initial or recurring syncs (the trees would be hardlinked, so extra space required is minimal).
mirror.chpc.utah.edu already has the DVD images and provides rsync access to the complete tree, and I would be willing to set up the separate rsync targets.
Dave