On Monday 18 April 2011 16:48:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: > > In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your > > server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded > > files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public > > Gentoo mirrors but because all clients share the same directory, files > > that some client has already downloaded are also available for every > > other client. Therefore they will not be downloaded twice. > > > > The only possible problem with this approach is that two clients might > > attempt to download the same file at the same time. Just make sure to > > start your updates at different times to avoid this. > > Yes, that's how I understood it, but I was looking ahead to a time when the > server might not be running Gentoo, in which case I wanted a mechanism to > obtain the distfiles to put on the server.
Never mind. The penny's finally dropped. Thanks to both. -- Rgds Peter
