[CentOS-devel] setting up an emergency update route

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Jeff Sheltren <jeff at 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.

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    Les Mikesell
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