mirrorservice.org would like to participate, as a tier one mirror for europe. Thanks Phill. On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, 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 > -- Archive Admin's at The UK Mirror Service http://www.mirrorservice.org/