On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:21:00AM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:08:30AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > This would require rather simple updates to the > > > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist script. > > > > I really don't want to trust that the only mirror in a given country > > is active and fully up-to-date, and send everyone from that country to > > that single mirror. The thresshold is 3 per country to provide some > > reasonable guarantee that at least one of those 3 is active and > > up-to-date at any given instance. > > Isn't that reasonable guarantee already the report_mirror data or > crawler acquired data? > Looking at current http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/ > there are only very few countries for which non-global list is used > (unlike FC6 times): > Canada, Germany, Spain, France, Greece, Japan, Netherlands, Romania, USA > E.g. Czech Rep. used to be listed, but supposedly two of the mirrors > were kicked out for not being 100% up2date by the crawler and now we > have just 2 mirrors, both stable though. It's a lot better, yes, but it's not guaranteed. The crawler takes nearly 12 hours to get through all the mirror hosts. Tell you what. I need three changes, and we can make this a lot better. 1) python-GeoIP needs to export the countrycode->continent mapping table, so we can list other mirrors on the same continent at least if the country has <3 hosts. The code is in GeoIP, it's just not exported via python-GeoIP, and my Python C-binding foo is weak. I'd like the countrycode->countryname (e.g. FI -> 'Finland') mapping exported as well, so I can display the country names rather than just the country codes. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243696 filed to track this. 2) mirrormanager mirrorlist algorithm adds an extra step. If there are 3 or more mirrors in a country, return all those. If not, add in mirrors on the same continent. If still <3, add in the global list. In addition, mirrormanager then returns the mirrorlist in priority order, so the country-specific mirrors appear first, then the same-continent, then global if necessary. For each geographic circle, randomize that sub-list so we get the same behavior as yum failovermethod=roundrobin, but we don't rely on yum for help. 3) Jesse releases a new fedora-release RPM that adds failovermethod=priority to each of the [repository] sections. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243698 filed to track this. So, if someone can help with 1) above, the other two should be easy. Thanks, 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 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
