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Troy Dack wrote: |
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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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Its not "mine" as in "i own it" but as in "i use it" |
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<quote> |
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$ rsync ftp.rhnet.is:: |
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Welcome to the RHnet Archive, Iceland |
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DISCLAIMER: RHnet is not liable for the use, storage or |
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transmission of any files stored on this archive. |
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Please email suggestions and questions to ftpadm@×××××.is |
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Access our ftp area by anonymous rsync like |
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rsync -av rsync://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/path/below/ /your/path/ |
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Please _don't_ use the '-z' option, as most of the files here are |
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already compressed, and running compression is CPU intensive thing |
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anyway. Just _wait_, and the transfer will eventually complete. |
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This mirror archive is also known as: |
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ftp1.is.freebsd.org |
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ftp.is.debian.org |
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rsync2.is.gentoo.org |
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Module Content Size |
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pub Public ftp area (ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub) (>800 GB) |
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FreeBSD FreeBSD Mirror (>90 GB) |
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NetBSD NetBSD Mirror (>55 GB) |
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OpenBSD OpenBSD Mirror (>50 GB) |
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fedora Fedora Linux Mirror (>32 GB) |
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redhat RedHat Linux Mirror (>65 GB) |
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redhat-contrib RedHat Contrib Mirror (7 GB) |
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debian Debian Mirror (>90 GB) |
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debian-non-US Debian non US Mirror (~2 GB) |
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slackware Slackware Mirror (>8 GB) |
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suse SuSE Mirror (>40 GB) |
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gentoo Gentoo Mirror (>30 GB) |
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gentoo-portage Gentoo Linux Portage tree mirror (~90 MB) |
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</quote> |
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The resons appear to be that they have more bandwidth than cpu, and perhaps do |
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not like to disable -z completely because they know some users might need to |
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use it sometimes, rather they ask that people dont use it. |
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I really dont think its fair to abuse this service we're getting for free from |
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rhnet so im asking you to incorporate a small feature so that i and the rest of |
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gentoo users in iceland can stop abusing our main mirror which is kindly |
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provided to us. |
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We of course can just edit the source code but a make.conf optiton is better, |
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its also alot simpler to provide new icelandic gentoo users with docs saying |
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they should add one option rather than tell them to go edit the source code or |
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provide a patch which needs to be kept up to date. |
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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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