From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OEJuM-0007RT-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 10:20:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14A05E06C5; Tue, 18 May 2010 10:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out6.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out6.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.109]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5E9E06C5 for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 10:19:12 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjcGAL4G8kt8qXQB/2dsb2JhbACReYwCcbxvhRAEgz4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,254,1272816000"; d="scan'208";a="118387600" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.116.1]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out6.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 18 May 2010 18:19:10 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170C41CB4162 for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 18:19:10 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MpgOaZ8EQBOx for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 18:19:07 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.2] (rattus [192.168.44.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F2F1CB40C3 for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 18:19:07 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space! From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <201005181012.21806.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <20100517215337.387b56bf@digimed.co.uk> <1274152387.24728.20.camel@troll> <201005181012.21806.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Organization: Home in Perth! Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 18:19:06 +0800 Message-ID: <1274177946.8834.4.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5511be72-4a03-4aa1-bbe1-a511270cc80e X-Archives-Hash: 5edd2d365eee21ec82dfd5f704cf976c On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 10:12 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 18 May 2010 04:13:07 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > > As an alternative check out http-replicator - yes the clients do > > download to a local directory but that can be cleaned afterwards. It > > also allows download locally when you know you are taking the machine > > (laptop?) elsewhere. > > Yet another approach is to have an rsync server on your LAN. In my case > it's the local server box (print, squid, mail etc). It's simple to set > up and to use, and all the boxes on the LAN can operate in their own > devious ways. > The advantage of http-replicator is that it is a caching proxy - if it isnt in the cache, it downloads it and then serves it out to one or more clients - rsync/FTP/wget/... can just share whats already there, not go get the file in the first place. BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!