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 1QBqzD-0003Aj-OB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:07:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5426A1C09D for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:07:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F751C025 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92527DEBD4 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:59:27 +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 NOMYXaqTNwlo for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:59:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60075DEBD0 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:59:27 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat! Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:59:26 +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> <4DAC4FF4.4000002@binarywings.net> <201104181648.08872.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201104181648.08872.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> 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: <201104181659.26690.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a6d4cf8d0907b84edcd50ae5abbb35e3 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