[mirror-admin] Fedora 11 Beta coming your way

[Carlos Carvalho]

Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) wrote on 27 March 2009 17:06:
 >I'm about to flip the bit on Fedora 11 Beta content
 >(pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/11-Beta/).  du says 48G, give or take
 >some due to hardlinks with pub/fedora/linux/development/.
 >
 >Release date is Tuesday March 31st at 1400 UTC.
 >
 >We're also unfreezing rawhide tonight so there will also be a fair
 >amount of churn in the development/ directory.  Normally I wouldn't do
 >both at the same time, but this freeze has been too long as it is and we
 >need to move on.

This is a disaster for us. Our bandwidth with the master is small,
just 250KB/s. When you mix development and releases the download is
enourmous and it takes *very long* just to reach the release, because
rsync pulls it after development. And we cannot pull just the release
because of the hardlinks.

We normally update from Duke, which is 4-5 times faster for us.
However Duke blocks the new stuff before the release moment so we
cannot get it anyway. I tried to get development from Duke, then get
the release from the master but some 20 hours after your announcement
Duke *still* hadn't the development updates. So a combination of big
changes + small bandwidth with the master + slowness in Duke made
things hard here.

For next time I suggest you wait 2 days before unfreezing development.
This way we can sync devel from the faster mirror and get the release
from the master before the unfreeze. Then we go back to the faster
tier 0 and get the new devel.

What happened to the internet2 connection of the master(s)? We can get
more than 4MB/s with the Oregon gigapop...

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