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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: --sync
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:22:29
Message-Id: tcb8e7$h94$1@ciao.gmane.io
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] --sync by n952162
1 On 2022-07-31, n952162 <n952162@×××.de> wrote:
2 > I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync,
3 > it's really a painful process.
4 >
5 > The process can take *very* before you find out if it succeeded or not.
6
7 In my experience, long --sync times have always been due to a slow
8 rsync server. Switching to a different server fixed it for me (though
9 sometimes it took a few tries to find a server that responded in a
10 timly manner).
11
12 That said, git is an order of magnitude faster than even the fastest
13 rsync server.
14
15 > It can take several hours before it finally works
16
17 That seems like something other than just a slow server. When dealing
18 with slow servers, it never took more than 15-30 minutes.
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21 Grant