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On Nov 12, 2011 8:16 PM, "YoYo Siska" <yoyo@××××××.sk> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 07:40:08PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> > On Nov 12, 2011 7:00 PM, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > I've been using boa just for this purpose for years: |
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> > > |
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> > > * www-servers/boa |
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> > > Available versions: |
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> > > ~ 0.94.14_rc21 "~x86 ~sparc ~mips ~ppc ~amd64" |
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[doc] |
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> > > Homepage: http://www.boa.org/ |
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> > > Description: A very small and very fast http daemon. |
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> > > It can be easily locked down for internet facing roles. |
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> > > |
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> > > I've also used thttpd (you can throttle its bandwidth if that's |
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important |
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> > in |
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> > > your network), but it's probably more than required for this purpose: |
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> > > |
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> > > * www-servers/thttpd |
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> > > Available versions: |
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> > > 2.25b-r7 "amd64 ~hppa ~mips ppc sparc x86 |
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> > ~x86-fbsd" [static] |
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> > > ~ 2.25b-r8 "~amd64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ~sparc ~x86 |
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> > ~x86-fbsd" |
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> > > [static] |
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> > > Homepage: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ |
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> > > Description: Small and fast multiplexing webserver. |
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> > Thanks for all the input! |
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> > During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master' |
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> > server share the distfiles dir via NFS? |
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> > So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit of |
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NFS-sharing vs |
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> > HTTP-sharing? The scenario is back-end LAN at the office, thus, a |
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trusted |
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> > network by definition. |
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> NFS doesn't like when it looses connection to the server. The only |
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> problems I had ever with NFS were because I forgot to unmout it before a |
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> server restart or when I took a computer (laptop) off to another |
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> network... |
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> Otherwise it works well, esp. when mounted ro on the clients, however |
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> for distfiles it might make sense to allow the clients download and save |
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> tarballs that are not there yet ;), though I never used it with many |
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> computer emerging/downloading same same stuff, so can't say if locking |
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> etc works correctly... |
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> And with NFS the clients won't duplicate the files in their own |
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> distfiles directories ;) |
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Yes, that would be beneficial. But if NFS is as finicky as that, what's a |
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better way to share directories? |
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Rgds, |