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