Re: [gentoo-scm] Git Validation - Update

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote:
>>> Whatever way it runs is fine IMO. Even if we have to throw money on
>>> it to make the migration happen I still think the NRE to move from
>>> the working platform you've created is overkill for the Gentoo
>>> migration.
>>>
>>
>> I think the money is a non-issue.  Even with non-spot instances 100
>> nodes for an hour is $50.  The time to copy files back/forth/etc is
>> probably a bigger issue.  No harm in continuing to explore options,
>> but as I said I will be moving towards getting the full validation
>> going end-to-end before I do any optimization, and others are more
>> than welcome to pick up the git half.
>
> Bittorrent may help. I'll admit not following too closely (closing on
> a house next week. Then moving.), but if it's possible to lump the
> data and roll a torrent, you could have the ec2 instances feed each
> other.

Even better, manual copy to the first instance, torrent to the rest.
The raw data only crosses network boundaries once, that way, and
nobody's fighting for your home upstream.


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