Troy Dack wrote:
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 04:15, �var Arnfj�r� Bjarmason wrote:
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Saturday 24 January 2004 19:16, �var Arnfj�r� Bjarmason wrote:
This seems to be hardcoded at the moment, could a variable be added to make.conf, perhaps
SYNC_COMPRESSION="yes/no" to control this behavior
i would say no ... i dont know of any reason why you would want to do that and it would increase the load on our rsync servers ...
-mike
Some mirrors (mine) specifically ask people not to use -z, gentoo users doing so piss of the mirror admins which means gentoo wont be mirrored.
Could you elaborate on why you ask users not to use -z?
Is the load on your hardware too great when using -z?
If that is the case then disable compression on the server like is done with rsync1.us.gentoo.org (see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml)
Its not "mine" as in "i own it" but as in "i use it"
<quote> $ rsync ftp.rhnet.is::
Welcome to the RHnet Archive, Iceland
DISCLAIMER: RHnet is not liable for the use, storage or transmission of any files stored on this archive.
Please email suggestions and questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Access our ftp area by anonymous rsync like
rsync -av rsync://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/path/below/ /your/path/
Please _don't_ use the '-z' option, as most of the files here are already compressed, and running compression is CPU intensive thing anyway. Just _wait_, and the transfer will eventually complete.
This mirror archive is also known as:
ftp1.is.freebsd.org ftp.is.debian.org rsync2.is.gentoo.org
Module Content Size ----------------------------------------------------------------------
pub Public ftp area (ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub) (>800 GB) FreeBSD FreeBSD Mirror (>90 GB) NetBSD NetBSD Mirror (>55 GB) OpenBSD OpenBSD Mirror (>50 GB) fedora Fedora Linux Mirror (>32 GB) redhat RedHat Linux Mirror (>65 GB) redhat-contrib RedHat Contrib Mirror (7 GB) debian Debian Mirror (>90 GB) debian-non-US Debian non US Mirror (~2 GB) slackware Slackware Mirror (>8 GB) suse SuSE Mirror (>40 GB) gentoo Gentoo Mirror (>30 GB) gentoo-portage Gentoo Linux Portage tree mirror (~90 MB) </quote>
The resons appear to be that they have more bandwidth than cpu, and perhaps do not like to disable -z completely because they know some users might need to use it sometimes, rather they ask that people dont use it.
I really dont think its fair to abuse this service we're getting for free from rhnet so im asking you to incorporate a small feature so that i and the rest of gentoo users in iceland can stop abusing our main mirror which is kindly provided to us.
We of course can just edit the source code but a make.conf optiton is better, its also alot simpler to provide new icelandic gentoo users with docs saying they should add one option rather than tell them to go edit the source code or provide a patch which needs to be kept up to date.
I think thats a valid reson,
Perhaps there could even be a SYNC_OPTIONS="" line where people could specify all options in case they need other uses.
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