Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 18 May 2010 12:59:28 William Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: My setup does exactly the same, since squid is running on the same box. How have you configured it? - I wouldn't have though squid suitable considering its designed for a

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 18 May 2010 04:13:07 Bill Kenworthy wrote: As an alternative check out http-replicator - yes the clients do download to a local directory but that can be cleaned afterwards. It also allows download locally when you know you are taking the machine (laptop?) elsewhere. Yet another

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 10:12 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2010 04:13:07 Bill Kenworthy wrote: As an alternative check out http-replicator - yes the clients do download to a local directory but that can be cleaned afterwards. It also allows download locally when you know

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 18 May 2010 18:19:06 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: The advantage of http-replicator is that it is a caching proxy - if it isnt in the cache, it downloads it and then serves it out to one or more clients - rsync/FTP/wget/... can just share whats already there, not go get the file in

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 18 May 2010 11:19:06 William Kenworthy wrote: The advantage of http-replicator is that it is a caching proxy - if it isnt in the cache, it downloads it and then serves it out to one or more clients - rsync/FTP/wget/... can just share whats already there, not go get the file in the

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2010 11:19:06 William Kenworthy wrote: The advantage of http-replicator is that it is a caching proxy - if it isnt in the cache, it downloads it and then serves it out to one or more clients - rsync/FTP/wget/...

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:21:50 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my ftp/pub directory. And looking in the rsync man page: Why not set $DISTDIR to the true location of distfiles instead of using bind mounts? -- Neil Bothwick Tribble

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 17 May 2010 10:10:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!: On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:21:50 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my ftp/pub directory. And looking

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:31:17 +0100, David W Noon wrote: Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my ftp/pub directory. And looking in the rsync man page: Why not set $DISTDIR to the true location of distfiles instead of using bind mounts? Because binding the

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 09:07 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:21:50 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my ftp/pub directory. And looking in the rsync man page: Why not set $DISTDIR to the true location of distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:39 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:31:17 +0100, David W Noon wrote: ... So the distfiles are actually in /usr/portage/distfiles? for me yes, it looks the same for David. I share my distfiles but I don't use FTP as that means storing copies of the

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 May 2010 21:50:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I share my distfiles but I don't use FTP as that means storing copies of the same file on each computer. Instead, I use NFS. /mnt/portage is shared across all machines on the network and DISTDIR is set to /mnt/portage/distfiles in

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:50:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!: On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:31:17 +0100, David W Noon wrote: Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my ftp/pub directory. And looking

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 May 2010 19:33:18 +0100, David W Noon wrote: I share my distfiles but I don't use FTP as that means storing copies of the same file on each computer. Instead, I use NFS. /mnt/portage is shared across all machines on the network and DISTDIR is set to /mnt/portage/distfiles in each

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 21:53 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010 19:33:18 +0100, David W Noon wrote: I share my distfiles but I don't use FTP as that means storing copies of the same file on each computer. Instead, I use NFS. /mnt/portage is shared across all machines on the

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
So after I excluded distfiles from my rsync, I found that the two partitions had roughly the same free space... strange! How could excluding around 6G of distfiles make two copies of the same thing the same size? Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my ftp/pub