High volume of traffic on download server - move to a 2-tiers rsync setup for mirrors?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

Hello,

On 1/18/26 9:13 PM, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> I'm waiting for feedback before asking all tier-1 mirror operators to
> switch to the new config.  So, is it OK if mirrors only carry active
> releases?  Does somebody need to mirror older releases?

As long as git and source package archives (and their mirrors/proxies) 
still work for one to build older releases (this is an extremely common 
need AFAIK), I see no need to mirror the official compiled binaries 
everywhere.

An archive host would be enough for the precompiled/signed binaries 
IMHO.   But that's my personal opinion.

> In that case, maybe archive.openwrt.org should provide rsync service?

It depends on how much load it would cause for archive.openwrt.org, I 
suppose.

It *is* a good thing to provide rsync access, if the machine can handle 
that (and nobody is abusing it).   Also, it would be nice if a mirror 
could drop in an extra config file or script to *also* mirror *selected* 
older releases from archive.openwrt.org *if it wants to*.

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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
www.nic.br