On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Lode Vermeiren wrote:
Why can't openSUSE use a wider mirror system, using 'established' mirrors like mirrorservice.org, ibiblio, ftp.belnet.be, planetmirror, ... ? Most of these are SUSE mirrors anyway, why not put openSUSE under this tree and make it get mirrored automagically?
The problem we are facing here is that the openSUSE trees are really huge. We decided not to put the openSUSE stuff into the existing SUSE trees, in order to keep the size of that trees on the same level.
I can personally offer a server to be online at the same time as the announcement is done (as I have access to the iso's), but to be honest it is not near as grunty as Eberhard's server, but maybe all together we can make a difference? And I can get the torrent live as soon as the announcement is done.
After the first beta I put one of my boxes online as a mirror as well for a day, but it proved to be too big of a load on the rest of the sites. I burned about 100 Gb of bandwidth in one day, so there's definitely a need for fast and reliable mirrors.
Yes, ftp.gwdg.de is delivering some 1.5-2 TB per day...! Regards Christoph