From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 10:46:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20F1A16A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:46:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from revelstoke.panasas.com (gw2.panasas.com [65.194.124.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF0D43D1F for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:46:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nlanza@premodern.org) Received: from revelstoke.panasas.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i0CIjsbl028493; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:45:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nlanza@premodern.org) Received: (from nlanza@localhost) by revelstoke.panasas.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i0CIjpFO028022; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:45:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nlanza@premodern.org) X-Authentication-Warning: revelstoke.panasas.com: nlanza set sender to nlanza@premodern.org using -f From: Nat Lanza To: Wes Peters In-Reply-To: <200401120832.36163.wes@softweyr.com> References: <20040111051649.GK7617@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4001B3B2.8080504@mindcore.net> <200401120832.36163.wes@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1073933150.83993.14.camel@revelstoke.panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:45:51 -0500 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:54:23 -0800 cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org cc: David Gilbert cc: Scott W Subject: Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:46:04 -0000 On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 11:32, Wes Peters wrote: > A few years ago Perforce was working on a write-through cache so you could > have a local duplicate of the server environment, but I haven't seen that > work come out of the company. That would've rocked for our development > model. They released the proxy a while ago, and it works very nicely. We use it at work, where we have three remote development sites connected by a VPN over fairly narrow pipes -- each site runs a local proxy and things are a lot faster than they used to be. p4p is pretty easy to set up and doesn't require any admin privileges -- take a look at the release notes: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.032/user/p4pnotes.txt Assuming the FreeBSD repository is running a reasonably recent server version, people working with it ought to see a pretty decent speedup if they run a local p4p on their development machines. --nat