Fedora ftp site?

[Richard Ayer III]

I guess I was thinking just refusing connections to just that particular
area of the mirror (if that's even possible).
But I definitely see your point about total size of all updates and the
bandwidth.

Richard Ayer III

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "seth vidal" <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>
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Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora ftp site?


> On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 15:56 -0600, Richard Ayer III wrote:
>
> > Maybe the mirrors and the main rawhide could all have an hour of
scheduled
> > downtime every day or two in order be sure things are sync'ed up?
>
> The mirrors don't just mirror red hat.
>
> Duke's mirror, for example, mirrors lots of other things, Having
> downtime for mirror syncing is not very acceptable to your other users.
> moreover an hour is not enough time to sync up everywhere around the
> world.
>
> Let's say on a good day I'm getting 1MB/s from the mirror master. And
> let's also say that rawhide was rebuilt the night before. So we end up
> with 4GB of changes including debuginfo packages.
>
> in an hour I'll only get 3.6GB from the mirror master. And then when the
> gates are opened again my rates will diminish rapidly.
>
> Now in general getting 1MB/s from the mirror master is a pipe dream. :)
>
> -sv
>
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