[mirror-admin] Fedora 9 Preview syncing now

[Matt Domsch]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 04:26:21PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 17:11 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > We've decided to offer the Fedora 9 Preview release via mirrors
> > (including jigdo) as well as the torrents already released.  As such I'm
> > in the process of syncing up the bits to our PHX netapp server.  Once
> > they are in place and mirrored to our other netapp locations, I'll flip
> > the bit so that mirrors can get to them.  Ideally our tier 0 mirrors
> > will pick them up quickly and feed a few tier 1 mirrors before we let
> > the public at it.  I'll keep the list informed as things progress.
> 
> The bits have been synced, and I just flopped the permission to allow
> mirrors to get to it.  That should be visible very soon (next 20~
> minutes)

As this is the first time we've tried the Tier 0 -> 1 -> 2 mirroring,
please pay attention to how well this works for you (delay between
when Jesse made the bits available and when you finally had them; ease
of getting the bits; bandwidth you were able to use in getting the
bits).  I'd like to know that all went well for you, as well as any
particular problems you may have encountered, so we can address them
before the full release of F9 on 13-May.

For the iBiblio Tier 0 mirror, it was able to pull the content from
Red Hat directly at about 100Mbit/sec, total download time was right
at 2 hours; of the 47GB total, 33GB were new ISOs, 14GB was able to be
hardlinked from the development/ tree so not transferred again.

I expect the final full Fedora 9 tree to be about 120GB, with about
the same ratio hardlinked to rawhide vs new ISOs (roughly 1:2).

War stories anyone?

Thanks,
Matt
Fedora Mirror Wrangler

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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