On Nov 12, 2011 8:16 PM, "YoYo Siska" <yoyo@gl.ksp.sk> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 07:40:08PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > On Nov 12, 2011 7:00 PM, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been using boa just for this purpose for years:
> > >
> > > * www-servers/boa
> > >     Available versions:
> > >                ~       0.94.14_rc21 "~x86 ~sparc ~mips ~ppc ~amd64" [doc]
> > >     Homepage:            http://www.boa.org/
> > >     Description:         A very small and very fast http daemon.
> > >
> > > It can be easily locked down for internet facing roles.
> > >
> > > I've also used thttpd (you can throttle its bandwidth if that's important
> > in
> > > your network), but it's probably more than required for this purpose:
> > >
> > > * www-servers/thttpd
> > >     Available versions:
> > >                        2.25b-r7 "amd64 ~hppa ~mips ppc sparc x86
> > ~x86-fbsd" [static]
> > >                ~       2.25b-r8 "~amd64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ~sparc ~x86
> > ~x86-fbsd"
> > > [static]
> > >     Homepage:            http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/
> > >     Description:         Small and fast multiplexing webserver.
> >
> > Thanks for all the input!
> >
> > During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master'
> > server share the distfiles dir via NFS?
> >
> > So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit of NFS-sharing vs
> > HTTP-sharing? The scenario is back-end LAN at the office, thus, a trusted
> > network by definition.
>
> NFS doesn't like when it looses connection to the server. The only
> problems I had ever with NFS were because I forgot to unmout it before a
> server restart or when I  took a computer (laptop) off to another
> network...
> Otherwise it works well, esp. when mounted ro on the clients, however
> for distfiles it might make sense to allow the clients download and save
> tarballs that are not there yet ;), though I never used it with many
> computer emerging/downloading same same stuff, so can't say if locking
> etc works correctly...
>
> And with NFS the clients won't duplicate the files in their own
> distfiles directories ;)

Yes, that would be beneficial. But if NFS is as finicky as that, what's a better way to share directories?

Rgds,