On 02/03/2015 07:08 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > On 3 februarie 2015 20:59:39 EET, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 3 February 2015 at 07:56, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: >> >>> How about a variation on A: >>> - ask some of the main mirrors for push access, put those in order >> and >>> make a new [centos-security] repo with a mirrorlist pointing just at >> them. >>> >>> Lucian >>> >> >> Speaking from working on the Red Hat/Fedora side of mirroring for a >> while... mirrors do not like to be pushed to. They also do not like >> having >> to run software that would initiate a pull if notified of new content. >> For >> most of them, this is a spare time, feel good item. They have no time >> and >> usually have to spend a good portion of the year explaining to their >> bosses >> why they even have a mirror to the internet since that costs someone a >> lot >> of money somewhere. So anything which adds to that workload is a minus. > > With my mirror admin hat on, even if we do not accept pushes/notifications we'll gladly poll any designated upstream mirror with any frequency considered suitable by you . And we'll also host any additional repo (if needed) with any (decent) size. The Debian mirror is already larger. Much larger :) > repeated polling is counter productive. for the 6 times the high-prio push was needed in the last year, its a waste to destroy mirror cache's every 10 min through the entire year. having dedicated nodes to just push rsync targets is also bad - since those machines then dont deliver any user facing service ( or bandwdith ) for most of the time. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc