From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263715AbTKKTnV (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:43:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263717AbTKKTnV (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:43:21 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:10760 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263715AbTKKTnU (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:43:20 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air Date: 11 Nov 2003 11:43:04 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <3FB0EEB5.5010804@myrealbox.com> <200311111438.47868.andrew@walrond.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <200311111438.47868.andrew@walrond.org> By author: Andrew Walrond In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > My preferred solution is a single sequence file as described by Adreas: > > Assuming sequence starts at 0, > > To modify the repository, +1 to sequence file contents, modify repo, +1 to > sequence > > To get a coherent copy, > do > seq1 = read(sequence file) > rsync repo > seq2 = read(sequence file) > until seq1==seq2 and !(seq1&1) > OK... this still doesn't deal with how to get mirrors to pick stuff up with a minimum of fuss. The "minimum of fuss" bit is *extremely* important... I still haven't managed to get all mirrors to use rsync. -hpa -- at work, in private! If you send me mail in HTML format I will assume it's spam. "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64