[CentOS-mirror] Status of dvd iso for CentOS mirrors.

[Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom]

Hello,

We can provide tier1 rsync access to DVD's. (mirrors.nfsi.pt)

Please let us know what are the right procedure to sync from upstreams.

We will then give rsync access aswell.

cheers.
--nvieira


On Apr 15, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Lance Davis wrote:

>
> With the release of 5 we have seen a tremendous increase in the use  
> of the dvd.iso , so that from bitorrent it is now downloaded 5  
> times more than the cd isos.
>
> That may be due in part to it being hard to find and more readily  
> available by Bt, but I think is also down to increased prevalance  
> of dvd-rom drives.
>
> The main issue with having the dvd isos available from mirrors is that
> Apache < 2.2 running on 32 bit architecture wont display files  
> larger than 2.0 GB , however CentOS 5 has Apache 2.2 with large  
> file support so that problem will now start to go away -  
> alternative is also to use lighttpd.
>
> (CentOS now has its first server up running C5 and able to display  
> large dvd images under http :)
>
> I have updated our isoredirect system to detect and verify dvd isos  
> on mirrors , and sources with current dvd isos are now listed  
> separately on the isoredirect page - what this is showing is that  
> very few of our mirrors have the dvd isos and we need to get more  
> out there ...
>
> To test :-
>
> http://isoredirect.centos.org/mirrorscripts/chooseisolist.pl? 
> release=5.0&arch=i386
> It will give you local info based on your ip
> you can also add &cc=xx to test other country codes
>
> I know a lot of mirrors are wanting to download the dvd isos and we  
> have just configured two new servers with msync-incdvd.
>
> However, we would still like mirrors to do their initial sync of  
> the dvd isos to one of our tier 1 mirrors that have them , and then  
> we will add their ip addres to our acl for syncing.
>
> We also have no problem if mirrors want to sync to a local tier 1  
> mirror, our system will still detect that they are up to date.
>
> It is likely that in the near future we will restrict access to  
> msync rsync to current registered mirrors, and new mirrors will  
> either have to register first or do an initial sync from a  
> registered mirror *hmm - we have said this before - but now we have  
> 160 mirrors we really will have to do something ...)
>
> 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 :-
>
> 1. provide rsync access to the complete CentOS release tree
> 2. would be prepared to act as a seed for new mirrors
> 3. 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).
>
> We will then publish details for other and new mirrors of how they  
> can sync against these master sync servers.
>
> If you would be prepared for your mirror to act as one, and have  
> the bandwidth and capacity for it then please respond.
>
> Whilst writing I would like to thank all of our mirrors for the  
> tremendous support that you provide for CentOS and our users and  
> especially during the release of 5.0
>
> Regards
> Lance
>
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