11:51 a.m.
I've wondered about this for years. I'v already emailed
ftp+fedora(a)redhat.com about this idea.
The mirrors list (http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html) could
be livened up with some sortable stat columns (by country) showing:
1. Link Up/Down
2. Bandwidth
3. Mirrors the FC1,2,3,4,5... Development,etc. directories.
4. The Latest Dev Build Date/Has Lastest Updates
5. Days out of date for each of the sections.
6. Maybe even a torrent seed.
People come and go and they typically *want* to use a mirror if they
could just get a good recomendation of one. I'm just saying that the
mirror pages could be made much more useful.
-eric wood
11:57 a.m.
Maybe someone here can forward my idea over to the closed mailing list:
mirror-list-d(a)fedora.us <mailto:mirror-list-d@fedora.us>.
7. Is this a Tier 1 or Tier 2 mirror.
-eric wood
Eric Wood wrote:
I've wondered about this for years. I'v already emailed
ftp+fedora(a)redhat.com about this idea.
The mirrors list (http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html)
could be livened up with some sortable stat columns (by country) showing:
1. Link Up/Down
2. Bandwidth
3. Mirrors the FC1,2,3,4,5... Development,etc. directories.
4. The Latest Dev Build Date/Has Lastest Updates
5. Days out of date for each of the sections.
6. Maybe even a torrent seed.
People come and go and they typically *want* to use a mirror if they
could just get a good recomendation of one. I'm just saying that the
mirror pages could be made much more useful.
-eric wood
11:58 a.m.
Eric Wood wrote:
I've wondered about this for years. I'v already emailed
ftp+fedora(a)redhat.com about this idea.
The mirrors list (http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html)
could be livened up with some sortable stat columns (by country) showing:
1. Link Up/Down
2. Bandwidth
3. Mirrors the FC1,2,3,4,5... Development,etc. directories.
4. The Latest Dev Build Date/Has Lastest Updates
5. Days out of date for each of the sections.
6. Maybe even a torrent seed.
People come and go and they typically *want* to use a mirror if they
could just get a good recomendation of one. I'm just saying that the
mirror pages could be made much more useful.
-eric wood
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/MirrorManagement. Your
ideas could probably add value to that.
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12:09 p.m.
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/MirrorManagement.
Your ideas could probably add value to that.
Thanks, I knew I wasn't the only one wondering this. However, I
thought a simple php script with some easy directory parsings would
liven up the mirror page in a hurry - I guess a full fledged project
management team is needed. ~~
-eric wood
10:14 p.m.
On 1/1/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)redhat.com> wrote:
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/MirrorManagement.
Your
ideas could probably add value to that.
I think we've had this discussion before, but I think it's important
that Mirrors utilize the --delay-updates option to rsync to minimize
problems with packages and metadata out of sync.
Resource requirements from man page:
"""This option uses more memory on the receiving side (one bit per
file transferred) and also requires enough free disk space on the
receiving side to hold an additional copy of all the updated files.
"""
Obviously, to initialize the mirror, you don't want this option.
However, upon incremental syncs, I believe it to be wholly beneficial
to the end user as it will reduce the number of bad mirrors.
Can someone with access to the wiki mention this information for
mirrors? I can, if you want: username "JeffPitman".
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