Gentoo Archives: gentoo-mirrors

From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] mirror fetch jobs and --checksum
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:32:46
Message-Id: robbat2-20160122T213059-239411712Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] mirror fetch jobs and --checksum by Adrian Sandor
1 On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:03:04AM +0000, Adrian Sandor wrote:
2 > Well, my concern is that for a source mirror, rsync would have to read
3 > 300+GB of data every 4 hours, it seems a bit harsh (unless there is
4 > some way to save/cache checksums?)
5 I agree it's painful.
6
7 It does seem there used to be even more than one patch to cache
8 checksums:
9 https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync-patches.git/tree
10
11 It was done twice:
12 checksums-reading*
13 db.diff
14
15 I don't know why upstream didn't accept these in the end (I've submitted
16 other patches to upstream also with no response).
17
18 --
19 Robin Hugh Johnson
20 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead, Foundation Trustee
21 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
22 GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85