J.H. wrote: > > Basically > >> But what would be the difference ?? - ok I guess they are more specific >> as to what you are going to get, and you may be able to give a different >> bandwidth path ?? > > The difference being, when releases happen the public doesn't see what's > being released, where as the mirrors need to be able to see it. I.E. > > rw------- <user> <group> centos/5.0 > > Would still be invisible during mirror propagation (rsync user is set as > a generic user without permission to access the folder) while the > mirrors connecting would be able to. That is the main difference, > otherwise 99% of the time the two would return the same data. Also > means that I can have two separate pools of connections say 10 - 20 > slots for mirrors and say a hundred for normal downloading which gives a > mirror a MUCH better chance of getting into and downloading things vs. > the general public. > FWIW, please use drwxr-x--- as the mode for "bit not yet flipped"; otherwise rsync has to run as the mirroring user to allow access for mirrors. -hpa