On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:27:34AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > On 12/27/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Hi > > > >What are the requirements other than bandwidth for the official mirrors > >listed at http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html. In particular > >do we require them to carry the complete copy including source images > >and packages? If not we should probably enforce that or list the mirrors > >which only have binary packages as partial mirrors. We can run some > >routine checks in a period basis automatically to cross verify this. > > > >Rahul > > > > I don't think there are bandwith requirements though we do regularly > test the mirrors and if they are overloaded would time out. I think > they can be somewhat selective (as in not a full copy of all of > rawhide, testing, updates, etc) though it should be a requirement. > > We're currently re-writing a new mirror system that can address some > of this stuff. But monitoring an entire mirror is difficult because > you'd basically have to download it and md5sum everything which is > horribly inefficient. Our checks are much simpler right now. I'm working on it... :-) We don't force everyone to carry everything. Most folks don't carry Extras right now. Most folks carry only i386 and x86_64. A few only carry updates. And *everyone* uses a different URL to get to their content. Maintaining it manually is impossible anymore - hence the need for some software. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/MirrorManagement for what I've got in mind, a little of which already works. -Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
