[mirror-admin] Still having problems syncing

[Mike McGrath]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Chuck Anderson wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:59:53PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > I'm working on pulling from kernel.org, but I just stopped that.  It
> > appears that a large number of the file timestamps have been updated,
> > which is causing my mirror to redownload a huge chunk of content (since
> > I use --delay-updates, I was close to running out of disk space).
>
> I'm in the exact same situation--running out of disk space with
> --delay-updates due to timestamp changes.  I've done a couple manual
> syncs using --size-only and without --delay-updates to work around
> that.
>
> > If the timestamps have been updated, all the mirrors would be trying to
> > redownload a large amount of data simultaneously, which could be a cause
> > of load issues.
>
> I was wondering about the timestamp issues.  I think I got a bunch of
> files with older timestamps when I synced to Duke.  I'm guessing that
> when someone downloaded the bunch of updates directly from koji, that
> the timestamps where incorrect, but this is just a guess.
>
> Right now I'm trying to sync to ibiblio, and I'm seeing some weird
> things, like a bunch (perhaps *all*) of "new" updates/9/*.newkey
> content.  Are we supposed to be getting new content for Fedora 9
> updates?  Or were the timestamps changed there too?
>

Likely timestamp changes, at least some of which was probably caused from
us running around trying to find alternatives since our only remaining
master mirror was having problems.

Also try some of the other mirrors listed on our
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring/Tiering
page.  Lets not take kernel.org down in flames with us :)

	-Mike

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