Subject: life, the universe, and everything (why rsync?!)
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Date: 2003-05-08 12:30:43 GMT (5 years, 16 weeks, 16 hours and 31 minutes ago)
since i first started using gentoo, the whole concept of using rsync has seemed incredibly silly to me. rsync requires special server and client software, increases loads on the servers, and significantly limits the number of mirrors (by not being http/ftp compatible). i can understand the reasoning behind rsync when gentoo was starting... it wasn't an issue of bandwidth and server load and thousands of users. but now it is. "find /usr/portage | wc -l" shows more than forty thousand files in the portage tree. my /usr/portage, without any distfiles, is over 170MB. i have an idea for a good distribution system that would save cpu, resources, bandwidth, and would allow for easy mirroring and proxying. it would be scalable and simple to implement, running on top of http/ftp. it seems to me that there are no compelling reasons behind gentoo's continued usage of rsync. i'm going to write a draft of my idea for a better portage synchronization/update system. in the meantime, i'm asking the portage maintainers/admins: are there _any_ real reasons (other than tradition) that rsync is still the standard? -j -------------------------------------------------------- Rev. Jeffrey Paul -datavibe- sneak <at> datavibe.net aim:x736e65616b pgp:0x15FA257E phone:8777483467 70E0 B896 D5F3 8BF4 4BEE 2CCF EF2F BA28 15FA 257E -------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user <at> gentoo.org mailing list