Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

[Matthew Woehlke]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:03:04PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> I'm getting out of my ken here, but could this be done in stages with
>> I2 connected hosts getting the bits early/first and then moving on to
>> others?
> 
> We need to move ~130GB to each of ~230 mirrors, in about 4
> days.
> 
> We already have in place a limited amount of "tiering".  The Tier 0/1
> mirrors get the bits first, then downstream mirrors pull from them.
> We have nearly all our "Tier 1" mirrors on I2 (all but the
> us.kernel.org).  Right now it's not mandatory, but no "new" mirrors
> (those signed up in the last 18 months or so) have been granted ACL
> permissions to download from the masters.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring/Tiering
> 
> One of my hopes for the F12 cycle is that we will have increased use
> of tiering and push mirroring.

What about dropping hierarchical mirroring altogether? Why hasn't 
someone developed a distributed (i.e. bittorrent-like) system for mass 
mirroring? :-)

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