[CentOS-mirror] [CentOS-devel] irc meeting today re: 5.6/6.0

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Jim Kusznir <jkusznir at gmail.com> wrote:

> So perhaps it would make sense to release the .iso's immediately via
> torrent while the mirror tree still sync's itself?  Users who want to
> be "early adopters" would need to accept it would be a few days before
> the package tree is available.  It would also allow the .iso's to be
> released in the mirror tree after the rest of the tree is already
> sync'ed.
>
> --Jim
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>
> wrote:
> > On 01/18/2011 04:16 PM, Jim Kusznir wrote:
> >> and sync.  Perhaps the tree without iso's should be sync'ed on the
> >> mirrors first, with the iso's available only via torrents for the
> >> first 24-48 hrs....
> >
> > This is perhaps something we can trial. But it would make kernel.org
> > quite unhappy. Also the other problem we have is that with over a 100
> > machines in 80+ DC's around the world, just seeding the .centos.org
> > network takes about 2 days. We did optimise some of the routes that we
> > use and have been doing regular pipeline testing to see what are the
> > best sort of rsync tree's we can setup, but 2 days is realistically the
> > earliest we can open msync up to external mirrors.
> >
> > Then there is the issue of non-public private mirrors rsyncing off msync
> > and contesting with the public mirrors :/ Last time I checked ( and I
> > accept this was a while back ) - we had about 3800 people pulling from
> > msync, we dont have nearly as many public mirrors.
> >
> >> In any case, I suggest/expect that the torrent seeds/downloads would
> >> not effect mirror operators or the servers themselves unless the admin
> >> decided to also seed the torrent.  Of course, all mirrors would
> >> benefit by offloading those users that "have to have it as soon as its
> >> released".
> >>
> >> Also, perhaps this would be a good time for the new mirror management
> >> system?
> >
> > I know that Ralph is working on something of this nature, and there are
> > atleast a couple more people helping and there have been some spike
> > tests for various options. So its definitely in the pipeline, not sure
> > if there is a delivery-date though.
> >
> > - KB
> > _________________
>
>
I would like to second Jim Kusznir's idea.. Upload the torrent on various
infamous torrenting sites

*cough* *cough* bay *cough* of *cough* pirates *cough*


Regards
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