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And maybe rules for minimal bw available on those +</I>><i> >>> mirrors, and minimal refresh time. +</I>><i> >>> +</I>><i> >>> I think we can try to have one Tier1 mirror in : +</I>><i> >>> ?- europe +</I>><i> >>> ?- south america +</I>><i> >>> ?- asia +</I>><i> >>> ?- us +</I>><i> >>> ?- africa +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> The goal was to limit the count of tier1 to avoid +</I>><i> >> - big bandwidth usage to our providers +</I>><i> >> - having a lot of mirrors to contact in case of change on our side. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> I don't see interest to have more primary mirror, especially in +</I>><i> >> africa or asia. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> >Having better ones would be nice... +</I>><i> >We currently have 3 tier1 mirrors, 2 of them have only 100Mbit and the +</I>><i> >third one only syncs once a day so is useless. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> >In asia, people in asia who want to provide a mirror have to sync from +</I>><i> >the chinese one which only have 100Mbit and is not primary +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> >In south america syncing from Europe is awful, and there is no up to +</I>><i> >date mirror in US, so I doubt we get much mirrors in America if we +</I>><i> >don't get proper primary one... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> ibiblio provides only basic service, it's not adequate for a tier1, +</I>><i> where commitment is necessary. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> When mageia.c3sl.ufpr.br is registered we can take care of the whole +</I>><i> South America. Since we have a 5Gb/s connection to Miami, I think we +</I>><i> can also serve North America adequately, even if it's not optimal. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I think a tier1 mirror should indeed meet some requirements: +</I>><i> - minimum bandwidth +</I>><i> - mirror all of the repository, to allow other mirrors update from +</I>><i> them +</I>><i> - update frequency +</I> +Good idea. + +For tier1 : +- minimum BW: 1Gb/s ? +- update frequency: 15mn ? + +Maybe we can also have requirement for non-tier1 : +- minimum BW: 10Mb/s ? +- update frequency: 5 hours ? + +><i> +</I>><i> It's not only bandwidth on the master that limits the number of +</I>><i> mirrors, it's also the very expensive disk scans caused by rsync. It's +</I>><i> sometimes a bigger problem than bandwidth. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> BTW, you say that 700GB are necessary, however the repository is only +</I>><i> 73GB now. Unless Jussieu is not complete. +</I> +The repository is currently 63GB, but we only have cauldron for now. At +release 1 and for each new release the repository will be forked. +Updates and backports repositories will be added. Maybe new +architectures like ARM will be added on the mirrors. So size will +increase with time, and can reach something like 700GB after a few +years and releases. Maybe README file should be updated to explain this. + +><i> +</I>><i> About the update frequency, you might want to provide triggering for +</I>><i> the tier1s. It makes updates much more efficient. Some distros use it +</I>><i> and for Debian it's a requirement for a tier1. +</I> +Interesting. The "Push Mirroring" ? +<A HREF="http://www.debian.org/mirror/push_mirroring">http://www.debian.org/mirror/push_mirroring</A> + +</PRE> + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003447.html">[Mageia-sysadm] Tier1 Mirrors +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003449.html">[Mageia-sysadm] Tier1 Mirrors +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3448">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3448">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3448">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3448">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">More information about the Mageia-sysadm +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |