On 26.01.2020 17.40, Yunxiang Li wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Network_shared_p...

I'm aware of that. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Dynamic_reverse_... is more or less the idea.

The idea is basically to mirror the packages when requested, instead of mirroring everything upfront. Is Arch Linux interested is that kind of mirrors?

On January 26, 2020 4:19:10 PM UTC, Kristian Klausen via arch-mirrors arch-mirrors@archlinux.org wrote:

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Hi

I'm considering setting up a Arch Linux mirror and I'm considering a different design.

So instead of mirroring the whole thing, the idea is to mirror only the database files (core.db etc) and download the packages on demand from a Tier 1 mirror (and let nginx cache them). By doing it that way, I only download requested packages from the Tier 1 mirrors, instead of downloading the whole thing (saving Tier 1 bandwidth).

To provide even better performance a CDN (ex: Cloudflare) could be used to provide more caching. So we end up with a setup like this: Cloudflare -> Nginx cache -> Tier1 mirrors (nginx with multiple upstream)

Do I miss something? Is this a bad idea? If I do setup a mirror like that, is there any chance it could be added as a official mirror?

Best regards Kristian Klausen