Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:42:28 +0100 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: brian@brianwhalen.net, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP multi processor compilations and packages Message-ID: <1237970548.41376.6.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> In-Reply-To: <49c9dbed.5TBY4hi2jHXQa51x%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <1237901632.1849.19.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <49C92F95.3090601@brianwhalen.net> <1237921844.44701.3.camel@hood.oook.cz> <49c9dbed.5TBY4hi2jHXQa51x%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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perryh@pluto.rain.com p=ED=B9e v st 25. 03. 2009 v 00:23 -0700:
> Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Brian Whalen p??e v ?t 24. 03. 2009 v 12:08 -0700:
> > > On a related topic, I wonder what the cost would be of acquiring
> > > enough hardware so that the probability of actually getting a
> > > package with portupgrade -aP would go up substantially ...
> >
> > It's more a question of creating a new delivery platform, because
> > the currently used ftp mirrorring is useless for packages. The
> > whole process of synchronizing from upstream server introduces
> > _days_ of delay into the process,
>=20
> presumably addressable by adding bandwidth, which would need to
> be included in "the cost ... of acquiring enough hardware ..."
Bandwidth is okay, but rsync is just too slow. Serial synchronization on
this amount of data does not work feasibly.
> > and there is no guarantee that you don't catch an upload in
> > progress, which renders whole mirror useless for a time period.
>=20
> I would have thought that judicious use of snapshots could avoid
> problems with in-progress updates.
Yes, but current ftp mirrors does not have enough space to hold several
snapshots of same package set. Thus, the need for new platform.
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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
See file. Click file. Get file.
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