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mirror status update for 5.3 release
by Karanbir Singh 
The release is going to get pushed out by another 24 hrs or so, ETA is now Tuesday morning UTC.
Getting the internal centos mirror network has taken a bit longer than I'd originally planned for - a couple of donated machines that were previously used to 'bridge' slow network links have gone away, and thats meant most of the last 2 days were spent juggling rsync's to make sure things move in the right direction, at reasonable speeds. My estimate on data moved within *.centos.org in the last 2 days = 1.2 TiB. Its not a very large number, but consider this : no two machines within the centos network are actually hosted in the same facility.
There is a *lot* of scope for changes to make the process more efficient, but I think we'd best do that sort of re-engineering when there isnt a release waiting to go out.
- KB
29/Mar/2009 08:05:52 pm, 
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The .torrents are ready - and yea, the last 5 - 7 days has only been internal release stuff going around.
The reason why having torrents out there isnt something we quite fancy is that if people install 5.3 from the torrents, the distro repo's and tree's they hit with yum will still be pointing at 5.2 rpms. both on internatl centos mirror's and external repo's. Even trying this within a small closed group in the early CentOS-4 days, we realised that wasent going to work, too much potential to get into odd situations.
the whole centos network is spread over the world, idea being that a large number of people get local access - fast and normally at low cost. Also, having it distributed wide has the benefit of redundancy for free.
Ofcourse this wasent by design. Its just that most of the donors will sponsor machines either inside their own networks or close to their networks.
That sounds interesting. Maybe something we could look into - where should we start ? is this something you might want to get involved in and help setup ?
Do I just leave it sitting there? Will it automatically start downloading and allowing others to download from it once the files are available?
We have a decent amount of outbound bandwidth available this week.
At this point if you really want to help use up some of your bandwidth, start seeding the torrents.
I jumped on them and already have about 2Tb transfered over the 4 Centos5.3 torrents.
Orion
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