On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Karanbir Singh <
mail-lists@karan.org> wrote:
> On 01/18/2011 04:16 PM, Jim Kusznir wrote:
>> and sync. Perhaps the tree without iso's should be sync'ed on the
>> mirrors first, with the iso's available only via torrents for the
>> first 24-48 hrs....
>
> This is perhaps something we can trial. But it would make
kernel.org
> quite unhappy. Also the other problem we have is that with over a 100
> machines in 80+ DC's around the world, just seeding the .
centos.org
> network takes about 2 days. We did optimise some of the routes that we
> use and have been doing regular pipeline testing to see what are the
> best sort of rsync tree's we can setup, but 2 days is realistically the
> earliest we can open msync up to external mirrors.
>
> Then there is the issue of non-public private mirrors rsyncing off msync
> and contesting with the public mirrors :/ Last time I checked ( and I
> accept this was a while back ) - we had about 3800 people pulling from
> msync, we dont have nearly as many public mirrors.
>
>> In any case, I suggest/expect that the torrent seeds/downloads would
>> not effect mirror operators or the servers themselves unless the admin
>> decided to also seed the torrent. Of course, all mirrors would
>> benefit by offloading those users that "have to have it as soon as its
>> released".
>>
>> Also, perhaps this would be a good time for the new mirror management
>> system?
>
> I know that Ralph is working on something of this nature, and there are
> atleast a couple more people helping and there have been some spike
> tests for various options. So its definitely in the pipeline, not sure
> if there is a delivery-date though.
>
> - KB
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