Sync is now done. I serve both HTTP and HTTPS as well as RSYNC. Theo > On 9/10/2018, at 5:45 PM, Theo Morra <theo at morra.nz> wrote: > > 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 <mailto: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/ <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 <http://mirror.centos.org/> to external mirrors. Most of those mirror.centos.org <http://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 <http://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/ <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/ <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/ <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 <mailto: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/b7a99149/attachment-0006.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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