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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:05:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0719679f494144dbd80e2585a34373b.squirrel@www.antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111112131152.GA18475@ksp.sk>

On Sat, November 12, 2011 2:11 pm, YoYo Siska wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 07:40:08PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> 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...

NFS-shares can work, but these need to be umounted before network goes.
If server goes, problems can occur there as well.
But that is true with any server/client filesharing. (CIFS/Samba, for
instance)

> 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...

Locking works correctly, have had 5 machines share the same NFS-shared
distfiles and all downloading the source-files.

> And with NFS the clients won't duplicate the files in their own
> distfiles directories ;)

Big plus, for me :)

--
Joost




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-14 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-12  8:24 [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files) ? Pandu Poluan
2011-11-12  8:46 ` Nilesh Govindarajan
2011-11-12  9:01   ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-12  9:14     ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-12 11:55       ` [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)? Mick
2011-11-12 12:40         ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-12 13:01           ` Mick
2011-11-12 13:13             ` Stéphane Guedon
2011-11-12 13:22             ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-12 13:11           ` YoYo Siska
2011-11-12 13:23             ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-14 10:05             ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2011-11-14 10:10               ` microcai
2011-11-14 14:36                 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-14 22:01                   ` v_2e
2011-11-15 18:40                   ` [gentoo-user] " Steven J Long
2011-11-12 13:14           ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2011-11-12 13:33             ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-12 17:05             ` [gentoo-user] " Holger Hoffstaette
2011-11-12 22:01           ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2011-11-13  0:18             ` William Kenworthy
2011-11-12 13:39 ` [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files) ? Ciprian Dorin Craciun

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