[mirror-admin] Fw: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status: ~200GB hitting the mirrors

[Carlos Carvalho]

Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net) wrote on 6 September 2008 08:32:
 >On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 08:33:54PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
 >> Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch at dell.com) wrote on 5 September 2008 11:41:
 >>  >extras/ is being moved off the master mirrors right now as well, to
 >>  >make additional space.
 >>  >-Matt
 >>  >
 >>  >On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:34:59AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
 >>  >> Heads Up.  ~200GB of new content is about to hit the master mirrors.
 >>  >> This is all the packages of Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 (but not the ISOs),
 >>  >> for the release/[89] and updates/[89] trees, re-signed.
 >> 
 >> Tough... It'll take between 10-15 days to get this. I'll try to speed
 >> things up by launching several parallel rsyncs.
 >
 >Isn't that cheating? AKA download accelerators? We even have HOWTOs on
 >how to block such practices on fpo. :-/

Not in this case, for two reasons: first, we're a tier 1 mirror, so
the sooner we get the new packages the better for the users. Second,
it won't load the servers if we have from the others the same download
ratio we get from the master, which is only 150-200 KB/s.

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