From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263221AbTKKDZh (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:25:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264183AbTKKDZg (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:25:36 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:12469 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263221AbTKKDZf (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:25:35 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB05699.4050808@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 19:25:13 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630 X-Accept-Language: en, sv, es, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Davide Libenzi CC: Andrea Arcangeli , Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >>I guess the "best" solution is to use LVM atomic snapshots, and only >>allow rsync off the atomic snapshot. That way any particular rsync >>session would always be consistent. That's a *HUGE* amount of work, >>though, and still doesn't solve the mirrors issue -- I don't control >>what the mirrors run. On the other hand, I don't know how many mirror >>sites actually mirror /pub/scm since it's not a requirement. > > > BTW, is rsync.kernel.org::pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs currently being fed > with new data? I don't get any updates. > It should be... I'll look at it in a bit. -hpa