On 11/13/2009 3:52 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/13/2009 08:34 PM, Nick Olsen wrote: > >> As I understand, You just had to be a public mirror. I don't know about >> the whole 100Mb/s deal. >> But really, what does it matter? >> Even if you sync from a tier 1, you still get the dvd's, just a little >> bit later. And chances are there is a tier 1 closer to you then a tier0 >> in mysnc, Thus would most likely be faster. >> > > There is actually quite a lot of complexity around the DVD images at the > moment - some required, some artificial. However, we are going to be > having a good old bash around with ideas in the next few days and start > looking at how we can better do this. > > What I expect is going to happen ( Tru and Ralph are more authoritative > on this issue ) - is that we are going to come up with a few options > that work for us best, and then put them on this list and see what and > how everyone feels about those - the aim being to not have restrictions > on who can get what, however retain focus on getting content out there, > real quick and reliably. > > Couple of things that we want to do is make sure we cut out the 'user' > traffic from the tier0 msync machines and focus on feeding the public > mirrors as a priority. And have a different target that users can pull > from, so their traffic does not impact the tier0->1->2 mirrors > > Expect more on this soon ( next week or so ) > > That sounds good. Like limit the msync machines to only rsync. Let all the other mirrors handle the HTTP yum traffic and such.