Mirror Owners,
AlmaLinux 9.3 is slated to release on Monday, November 13, 2023. The
updates will begin syncing out to mirrors today in the next few hours.
This is our first release since adding a second rsync mirror into our
network so syncs should be a bit faster as we now have 60Gbps of total
capacity (up from 10) for mirrors to pull from as well as geo-DNS steering
for rsync.repo.almalinux.org so the West Coast US and APAC mirrors should
get a significantly better route to an rsync mirror now.
There are quite a few mirrors in the "expired" status in the mirrorlist at
https://mirrors.almalinux.org meaning syncs are either broken, or not
running frequently enough. This is a good time to check if your mirror is
in that list and correct any issues to be ready for the 9.3 release.
If you need help fixing your expired or otherwise out of sync mirror we are
happy to help via chat
<https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/channels/mirrors>, email
<https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/mirror.lists.almalinux.org/>,
or GitHub <https://github.com/AlmaLinux/mirrors/issues>.
Thank you for your contribution to AlmaLinux by hosting a mirror. A
healthy network of mirrors is integral to the continued success of
AlmaLinux.
--
Jonathan Wright
AlmaLinux Foundation
Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>
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.
--
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…
--
Jonathan Wright
AlmaLinux Foundation
Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>