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On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 04:15, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Saturday 24 January 2004 19:16, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: |
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> >>This seems to be hardcoded at the moment, could a variable be added to |
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> >>make.conf, perhaps |
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> >>SYNC_COMPRESSION="yes/no" to control this behavior |
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> > i would say no ... i dont know of any reason why you would want to do that and |
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> > it would increase the load on our rsync servers ... |
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> > -mike |
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> Some mirrors (mine) specifically ask people not to use -z, gentoo users doing |
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> so piss of the mirror admins which means gentoo wont be mirrored. |
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Could you elaborate on why you ask users not to use -z? |
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Is the load on your hardware too great when using -z? |
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If that is the case then disable compression on the server like is done |
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with rsync1.us.gentoo.org (see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml) |
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> I think thats a valid reson, |
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> Perhaps there could even be a SYNC_OPTIONS="" line where people could specify |
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> all options in case they need other uses. |
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> > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
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tad@g.o look around once in a while, you could miss out. |
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