I concur with what Claire and Jonathan said. And, I also feel the trouble that the current msync admins go through during such massive updates. The "chasmd" project that Karan pointed to in another thread is really interesting, and would make life easy if done properly. We also don't mind having a push update request. But, we already update every 2 hours, and can even go for every hour, if needed. Would a push also be required for such frequency? rsync is a great tool, but it hogs down the bandwidth of the server it is syncing from. Is it insane to think about other file-sharing protocols for syncing, like BitTorrent, for keeping your mirrors upto date? Regards HASSAN On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 02:36, Claire M. Connelly <cmc at math.hmc.edu> wrote: > "KS" == Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> > > KS> So here is a question for you - as a mirror admin, would > KS> you host an rsync target that msync.c.o could push into ? > KS> It could be ither based on a user/pass acl or a key. And > KS> we would give you a list of ip's that will push to your > KS> machine. > > We host a Debian mirror that's pushed; the upstream mirror > connects to us using an SSH key that then triggers a script that > does the sync. > > I would certainly be happy with CentOS doing something similar > (subject to some concerns about syncs interfering with one > another). I would be less enthusiastic about setting up and > maintaining an rsync server that an upstream mirror could sync to > directly. > > Claire > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > Claire Connelly cmc at math.hmc.edu > System Administrator (909) 621-8754 > Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > For System News: http://www.math.hmc.edu/computing/news/ > or http://twitter.com/hmcmathcomp/. > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20100520/bd1a4baf/attachment-0006.html>