From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:59:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104181659.26690.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201104181648.08872.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
On Monday 18 April 2011 16:48:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 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.
Never mind. The penny's finally dropped. Thanks to both.
--
Rgds
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-18 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-18 1:28 [gentoo-user] Howzat! Peter Humphrey
2011-04-18 1:44 ` Dale
2011-04-18 4:53 ` Joshua Murphy
2011-04-18 7:52 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-18 8:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-18 9:32 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-19 22:40 ` Kfir Lavi
2011-04-19 22:54 ` Dale
2011-04-20 7:33 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-20 8:42 ` Dale
2011-04-20 9:25 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-20 9:49 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-04-20 10:24 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-21 5:41 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-04-21 15:49 ` Paul Hartman
2011-04-20 12:37 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-20 13:16 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-04-20 13:41 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-20 20:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-04-20 21:38 ` Mick
2011-04-18 11:22 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-18 12:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-18 14:35 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-18 14:51 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-18 15:48 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-18 15:59 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2011-04-18 21:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-19 5:34 ` Thanasis
2011-04-19 6:57 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-19 8:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-19 12:07 ` Thanasis
2011-04-20 13:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-20 21:23 ` Thanasis
2011-04-20 22:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-21 7:44 ` Thanasis
2011-04-21 8:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-21 8:15 ` Thanasis
2011-04-21 10:57 ` Thanasis
2011-04-21 13:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-21 14:45 ` Thanasis
2011-04-21 22:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-22 5:05 ` Thanasis
2011-04-22 7:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-22 8:12 ` Thanasis
2011-04-22 13:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-22 15:26 ` Thanasis
2011-04-22 18:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-21 13:41 ` Mark Knecht
2011-04-21 22:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-22 0:38 ` Mark Knecht
2011-04-19 12:40 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-20 10:40 ` Thanasis
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