From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2MDtD7a002659 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:55:14 GMT Received: from xantronkunden1.de ([80.86.187.130]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDjqi-00088g-KN for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:55:12 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.13] (dsl-082-083-246-090.arcor-ip.net [82.83.246.90]) by xantronkunden1.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D63228432 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:53:39 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for an alternative portage tree sync method From: Patrick Lauer To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200503220715.02669.gentoo-dev@wizy.org> References: <200503220715.02669.gentoo-dev@wizy.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-mbvwtAWg9W6Bp6AJ0pMo" Organization: Gentoo Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:55:11 +0100 Message-Id: <1111499711.7251.16.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-Archives-Salt: 6d09d221-5df3-44cb-b0f2-2dea10f361c0 X-Archives-Hash: c352e66eea8d1785c785c9292a8970f7 --=-mbvwtAWg9W6Bp6AJ0pMo Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 07:15 +0000, Ricardo Correia wrote: > Hi, > Please read the following proposal, I think you'll be interested: >=20 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2218914.html >=20 > If you could reply in the forum, it would be great :) So ...=20 zsync is basically rsync over http without a "server daemon". To facilitate the file transfers the original poster wants to create a ISO file from /usr/portage and sync to that. A few problems: - that .iso and the .zsync metadata need to be generated. More load on master server - isos don't allow easy access, e.g. writing a few bytes for a tricial bugfix - mkisofs might shuffle the data so that transferring one large file might cause more traffic than rsync does now I don't see the advantages over tar + binary diffs.=20 Personally I like the idea of alternative synchronization mechanisms, but rsync (sucky as it is) still seems to be the least sucky we have found yet ;-) Patrick --=-mbvwtAWg9W6Bp6AJ0pMo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCQCO+qER3hOUoZM4RAtOOAJ4hggHaqRytNYC09zXW533QyxVxhwCeNu9g Tr7nU90ATGeylDj8PAZlopw= =V0By -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-mbvwtAWg9W6Bp6AJ0pMo-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list