Hi Johnny, Can you send me some samples of how to mirror the DVD tree ? (i believe that other persons in this list, with the same problem, will thank aswell) If needed, our IP is 81.92.200.26 thanks in advance. cheers, --nvieira On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 09:05 +0200, Lars Strand wrote: >> On tir, 17 apr 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >>> >>> Both are pretty ridiculous, quite frankly. >>> >>> Settle on a standard --exclude pattern, and you don't need two >>> trees of >>> any sort. >>> >>> Currently, I believe --exclude *-DVD.iso should work, but --exclude >>> *-DVD*.iso might be a better (future-proof) pattern. >>> >>> One can easily export two different rsync modules with and >>> without DVD >>> images, if that's at all desirable, simply by putting the exclude >>> pattern in rsyncd.conf. >>> >> >> I totaly agree. It's simpler for CentOS to administrer ONE single >> repository, and easier for all of us have one repository to deal >> with. >> Most of us have enough disk space for the DVD isos anyway. Those who >> don't, can use a exclude pattern - which can be documentet on the >> CentOS mirroring howto page: >> >> http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=22 >> >> It more KISS and most Linux distributions do this, so why can't >> CentOS? > > Well ... we have several (20-30) internal centos mirrors that we > use to > distribute the CentOS to the world ... and those mirrors do not all > have > the DVD on them because we do not have the drive space available on > those donated servers to put all the DVDs on. We do not want to loose > half of our mirror bandwidth because we put DVDs in the mainline tree. > > As for external mirrors, I think it would be nice for you to provide 2 > targets (one with and one without DVDs) if you carry the DVDs, but it > should not be hard to tell people to exclude DVDs if they don't want > them. > > In a perfect world, CentOS could just have one tree because all our > internal servers would have > 1TB of storage space and everything > would > fit on each mirror ... in the real world our internal servers are > donated and we get whatever the donor has to offer and we use it in as > many ways as we can to distribute CentOS to millions of people :P > > I hope this makes it easier to understand why the DVDs are a subset on > the CentOS mirrors at least. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror