Hello Mirror Owners,
We are doing some maintenance on the main rsync mirror (
rsync.repo.almalinux.org) shortly to upgrade the drive array. We've
updated DNS to point to a backup mirror so you should not see any issues on
your end unless you use a DNS caching server that's exceptionally slow at
updating. If you do see any errors do not worry about it as they are only
temporary.
The web server side of rsync.repo.almalinux.org will drop offline during
this but rsyncd should remain functional.
No action is required on your part.
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Jonathan Wright
AlmaLinux Foundation
Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>
Hello Mirror Owners,
rsync on the official rsync mirror (rsync.repo.almalinux.org) has been
updated to 3.2.3 with xxHash support. This means that rsync w/xxhash is
now available for consumption by all mirrors.
The upstream rsync version available in EL8 (currently 3.1.3) is too old to
support xxHash so we've made available a backported RPM from CentOS 9
Stream with xxHash support compiled. rsync 3.2.3-9.el8.1 is available at
http://repo.almalinux.org/backports/8/x86_64/rsync/. It depends on the
xxhash-libs package from EPEL.
If your mirror is on EL8 you can easily update to this version of rsync
with the following commands:
yum -y install epel-release
curl http://repo.almalinux.org/backports/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
--output /etc/yum.repos.d/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
yum -y update rsync
No further action is required and your mirror will now sync from
rsync.repo.almalinux.org using the xxHash algorithm.
xxHash is a great improvement to rsync as it provides faster, more CPU
efficient hashing allowing higher transfer rates to be obtained.
There is a good article about rsync+xxhash and benchmarks available at
https://community.centminmod.com/threads/custom-rsync-3-2-3-rpm-builds-with…
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Jonathan Wright
AlmaLinux Foundation
Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>