[CentOS-mirror] Proposal for a mirror hierarchy
Kazuhiro Fujieda
fujieda at jaist.ac.jp
Mon Nov 30 02:39:43 UTC 2009
Dear CentOS mirror administrators,
There are many mirrors, but few mirrors provides DVD images.
I believe most of all mirrors have enough resources to provide
DVD images. You always say the master can't provide DVD images
for all mirrors without enough resources.
I suggest introducing mirror hierarchy as follows to solve this
problem.
Administrators of servers with enough facilities stand as
candidates of sub-master server. You may chose at most two or
three servers in one country, and allow only sub-masters to
access the bunch of master servers. In this case, All masters
should provide DVD ISO images.
In my humble estimation, sub-masters should have at least 500
Mbps of effective bandwidth dedicated to CentOS. They should
also provide rsync service able to have more than 20
simultaneous connections. The word `effective' means sub-masters
should transfer more than 5 Tbytes per day only for CentOS.
As for our server, it can easily satisfy these criteria.
Sub-masters may synchronize with the master each hour. Other
mirrors may synchronize with the sub-masters 2-4 times per day.
Sub-masters should properly share the rsync ACL with the masters
to distribute new releases secretly in advance.
Please investigate this idea.
Regards,
--
Kazuhiro Fujieda
JAIST FTP Admins <ftp-admin at jaist.ac.jp>
http://ftp-admin.blogspot.com/
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