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 > > -- > uklinux.net - > The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror