Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

[Pacho Ramos]

El dom, 21-07-2013 a las 16:46 +0200, justin escribió:
> On 7/21/13 4:26 PM, Michael Weber wrote:
> > On 07/21/2013 01:42 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> >> Would be possible to generate and provide squashed files at the
> >> same time tarballs with portage tree snapshots are generated?
> >> mksquashfs can take a lot of resources depending on the machine,
> >> but providing the squashed images would still benefit people
> >> allowing them to download and mount them
> >
> > I've establish a cron job on my server to generate gzip and xz
> > squashed snapshots. I sync distfiles from utwente at 6:05 and generate
> > the squashfs at 6:35 after verifying the gpg signatures.
> > There's a 10,5h lag between snapshots and squashfs files - we could
> > improve if I'm allowed to sync against master rsync/dinstfiles.
> >
> > [1] http://lore.xmw.de/gentoo/genberry/snapshots/
> >
> >
>
> I am creating them as well. Perhaps we can bundle the effort.
>
> What I also found out that using zsync is quite efficient with squashfs
> images. I normally don't sync more then 20-30% of the image.
>
> Justin
>

Maybe infra could be contacted to try to share the effort (and also
offer the snapshot in a bit more "official" way, I mean, similar to
tarballs with snapshots)