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 1QBqwq-0002be-Fg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:05:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B55DE1C0B7 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFEFF1C016 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01A1DEBD0 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:48:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JyOS8lS3sJ5R for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:48:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD45DEBC7 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:48:09 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat! Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:48:08 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201104180228.59487.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201104181535.30742.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4DAC4FF4.4000002@binarywings.net> In-Reply-To: <4DAC4FF4.4000002@binarywings.net> 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 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104181648.08872.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8e526cab40101e7668b68a3fe8dcd735 On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: > In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your > server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded > files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public > Gentoo mirrors but because all clients share the same directory, files > that some client has already downloaded are also available for every > other client. Therefore they will not be downloaded twice. > > The only possible problem with this approach is that two clients might > attempt to download the same file at the same time. Just make sure to > start your updates at different times to avoid this. Yes, that's how I understood it, but I was looking ahead to a time when the server might not be running Gentoo, in which case I wanted a mechanism to obtain the distfiles to put on the server. -- Rgds Peter