Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:51:32 +0200, 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.

Exactly.

> 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.

I believe this is no longer an issue as portage now uses file locks over
NFS. I don't know if it does the same with CIFS shares, I've never tried
it.

Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with
emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to
update.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"I am a Cub Ranger. We dib dib dib for the One. We dob dob dob for the
One."

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