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From: rob holland <robh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] speeding up emerge sync...and being nice to the mirrors
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:37:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <115910000.1053081445@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305161035.26971.C.J.Bainbridge@ed.ac.uk>

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--On Friday, May 16, 2003 10:35:26 +0000 Chris Bainbridge 
<C.J.Bainbridge@ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>> only one file to diff, which in my mind should be more
>> efficient. no more waiting for the 40000 file list to
>> arrive.

Seeing as no-one else has piped up yet... :)

The main problem with using a loopback fs is that we'd then need to require 
kernel support for it.

The main problem with using a tar file and rsyncing that is that we have to 
tar/untar the whole portage tree each time. That takes a while (and quite a 
lot of space) :/

--

robh@gentoo.org / robh:irc.freenode.net

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-16  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-15 13:50 [gentoo-dev] speeding up emerge sync...and being nice to the mirrors leon j. breedt
2003-05-15 14:32 ` Teo
2003-05-15 15:32   ` rob holland
2003-05-15 16:16     ` Teo
2003-05-15 16:26 ` Stanislav Brabec
2003-05-15 17:10   ` Björn Lindström
2003-05-15 19:48     ` Stanislav Brabec
2003-05-15 23:39     ` Evan Powers
2003-05-16 10:35 ` Chris Bainbridge
2003-05-16 10:37   ` rob holland [this message]
2003-05-16 13:29     ` Chris Bainbridge

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