Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Nov 10 2003 - 22:27:04 EST


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

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