[EZNETSOLS #25448] [OSS] Fedora 15 staged for mirroring, release Tuesday

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 13:02 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 07:23:05AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 May 2011 17:09:54 -0500
> > Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Friday, May 20, 2011 05:07:32 PM Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > > > On Friday, May 20, 2011 04:36:40 PM Matt_Domsch at dell.com wrote:
> > > > > This is the first release we're doing since moving the master
> > > > > mirrors from Red Hat I/T control to our control.
> > > > > 
> > > > > With that, we dropped all the historical mirrors that were using
> > > > > download.fedora.redhat.com and were in its rsync ACLs, forcing
> > > > > people to use the tiering.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Right now, we have only a few mirrors reporting having the
> > > > > content (per the mirrorlists):
> > > > > http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/
> > > > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/15/Fedora/
> > > > > ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora /
> > > > > http://mirror.seas.harvard.edu/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/
> > > > > http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/releases/15/Fedora/
> > > > > http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/
> > > > > http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/
> > > > > 
> > > > > Should we consider:
> > > > > a) force mirrors to change to tiering if they want the bits
> > > > > before Day 0. b) opening up the restrictions on dl.fp.o so the
> > > > > historical mirrors don't have to make changes (at a cost of
> > > > > bandwidth from dl*) c) bitflipping really early (e.g. ~now)
> > > We dont need to bitflip, we can just make it so its available via
> > > rsync but not via http or ftp
> > 
> > True. 
> > 
> > Looks like we are now up to 19 mirrors... so it's going up. 
> > 
> > Is that normal for this time before release? I'm not sure. 
> > 
> > How many do we normally like to have by release day? 
> 
> For F14, we had about 50 mirrors in sync.  Right now we have about 25.
> 
> I'd like to propose we unrestrict [fedora-enchilada], which is being
> hit by about 64 mirrors right now (all of whom should be using a
> tiered mirror, but they are probably still using
> download.fedora.redhat.com which points to us now), at least through
> the bitflip.  We'll want to watch the load on dl0[1-5] and the
> bandwidth spike, but it should give us more synced mirrors.
> 
> 


+1 - but can we resolve back these mirrors and plonk them about it?

-sv