Hey there. Second AltArch mirror in APAC. https://altarch.mirrors.theom.nz/centos/ <https://altarch.mirrors.theom.nz/centos/> rsync://rsync.mirrors.theom.nz/centos-alt/ <rsync://rsync.mirrors.theom.nz/centos-alt/> Sync is being performed now. Should be done in about an hour As usual, my mirror is in both Auckland and Christchurch in NZ. Theo > On 9/10/2018, at 10:19 AM, Anssi Johansson <avij at centosproject.org> wrote: > > Hi, we're looking to extend the geographical coverage of CentOS AltArch > mirrors a bit. For those who don't know, the Alternative Architecture > SIG produces CentOS 7 for all kinds of odd architectures such as > aarch64, armhfp, i386, power9, ppc64 and ppc64le. > > We have a separate list of mirrors providing AltArch content at > https://www.centos.org/download/altarch-mirrors/ and if you have a look > at that list, you will notice that there are several mirrors from Europe > and U.S., but less from other regions. > > We're currently in the process of shifting AltArch-related traffic from > mirror.centos.org to external mirrors. Most of those mirror.centos.org > nodes double as msync nodes, and by directing users to use external > mirrors instead of mirror.c.o, more bandwidth would be available for > syncing external mirrors. In addition to the saved bandwidth, many of > the external mirrors have much more bandwidth than msync.c.o nodes, so > the end users will also see a benefit. > > If the existing AltArch mirrors have a look at their traffic stats, they > will probably notice that there hasn't been much AltArch traffic. That > will see a slight increase soon, though. We will soon push out updated > centos-release packages for AltArch that will use mirrorlist.c.o to find > a nearby external mirror, instead of the currently configured > mirror.centos.org. The old mirror crawler only checked main architecture > repos (and only a subset of those), but the current mirror crawler will > check main architectures and AltArch architectures, and all the > repositories that are active. > > Some AltArch .iso download links have also been changed to point to > isoredirect.c.o, which has a newly added capacity to redirect AltArch > .iso image requests to external mirrors. The remaining AltArch .iso > redirects to external mirrors will be done prior to CentOS 7.6.18xx release. > > That said, I don't expect AltArch to generate significant additional > traffic compared to the main architectures. My primary concern here is > the geographical coverage, ie. the number of countries represented. > Let's say that it'd be nice if there were mirrors from a handful of > countries from each continent. > > If there isn't yet an AltArch mirror in your country and you think your > mirror could close a "gap", please consider mirroring AltArch as well. > At the moment AltArch consumes around 100 GB of disk space. Please note > that when CentOS 7.6.18xx gets released, both 7.5.1804 and 7.6.18xx will > be kept on mirrors for a while, thus temporarily doubling the disk space > required. > > Another technical point is that if you start mirroring AltArch, the > content must be available in a different directory (and thus at a > different URL) than the main content. One common convention is to have > directories "centos" and "centos-altarch". You will also need to invoke > rsync twice; first for the main content (as before) and then for the > AltArch content at rsync://msync.centos.org/altarch/ > > Although all current CentOS mirrors can already access the above > msync.c.o module for AltArch, it would be nice if you could do your > initial rsync from some other external mirrors listed on > https://www.centos.org/download/altarch-mirrors/ , even if the nearest > external mirror providing AltArch over rsync isn't exactly nearby. Once > you have done an initial sync from an external mirror, you can switch to > doing incremental syncs from rsync://msync.centos.org/altarch/ > > Once you are done, please provide the http/https/rsync URLs to your > mirrored AltArch content so those could be added to the list. > > Thanks for reading this far, and thanks for all the bandwidth! > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20181009/38cafd91/attachment-0006.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20181009/38cafd91/attachment-0006.sig>