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 1QBwcf-0007TL-KK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:08:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4169C1C0D5 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:08:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BCA41C03A for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6E368802BC for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:56:15 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:56:09 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat! Message-ID: <20110418225609.0e47a40e@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4DAC4FF4.4000002@binarywings.net> References: <201104180228.59487.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201104181222.51841.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20110418134445.7799b693@digimed.co.uk> <201104181535.30742.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4DAC4FF4.4000002@binarywings.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs12 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/qvBZp4PqigQlp0+6MoxZNpM"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8688680dffc6695a02af59c737b8715f --Sig_/qvBZp4PqigQlp0+6MoxZNpM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick "I am a Cub Ranger. We dib dib dib for the One. We dob dob dob for the One." --Sig_/qvBZp4PqigQlp0+6MoxZNpM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2ss34ACgkQum4al0N1GQMvHwCg3EvasrH7trYv3iur3oGGYIRf xgkAoK8geqT6Cw8vHRJEXEPYNjyYullo =peP8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/qvBZp4PqigQlp0+6MoxZNpM--