Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:36:59 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> Cc: FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, cperciva@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update Message-ID: <9EBC9714-47D9-42FD-9236-04ADF7868EEE@kientzle.com> In-Reply-To: <20140129205157.GB86491@e-new.0x20.net> References: <lblts0$9o1$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAJ5UdcO6V_YnyoJSA=JRL_D7vFzZ8yXcKnh2QcjNQDskbpE98w@mail.gmail.com> <5F09668C-0DEA-4074-A06C-BC4D29F92368@FreeBSD.org> <201401211149.45793.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAN6yY1uiNcWPuJL=O6osDhZci_YBXe7tRW0Nt_cUy25cCTbALQ@mail.gmail.com> <52E2C1BC.10202@allanjude.com> <20140125113236.GX86491@e-new.0x20.net> <1390662664.13404.75208481.39F16B29@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20140129205157.GB86491@e-new.0x20.net>
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On Jan 29, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:11:04AM -0600, Mark Felder wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014, at 5:32, Lars Engels wrote: >>> >>> >>> Also using freebsd-update behind a proxy is really slow. Even with a >>> very fast internet connection (normally download rates ca. 3 MBytes / s) >>> downloading all the tiny binary diff files took more than 8 hours. >>> Maybe freebsd-update's backend could create a tarball of all those diffs >>> and provide this? >> >> Even streaming the tar instead of waiting for the freebsd-update server >> to produce the tarball would be an improvement. I have no experience >> doing that over a WAN but I don't see why it would be unreliable. I implemented an export capability for $WORK last year that built and streamed a Zip archive on the fly. It worked rather well even when the archives were multiple gigabytes with tens of thousands of entries. Tim
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