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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20110121/1c6bb4d1/attachment-0006.html>