[mirror-admin] Gigabit NIC saturated.. [Re: Fedora 9 bitflip... slow becauseof the updates

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:19:28PM -0400, Voll, Toivo wrote:
> 2) Since we fell to Tier 2 status, I was wondering what the mechanism /
> policy is for us to get rsync access to the release prior to the bit
> flip? Do Tier 1s provide a different rsync view depending on the
> mirrormanager ACL or by request, or how is this handled? Do they
> restrict the availability of releases at all and I was just trying
> mirrors that weren't synced yet? My apologies if this was already
> discussed somewhere and I missed it.

Yes, each Tier [01] mirror offers private rsync to Tier 2 mirrors.
To use this, you must be on the ACL for your chosen Tier [01] mirror
you're pulling from.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring/Tiering
describes this.

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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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