On 7/21/13 4:26 PM, Michael Weber wrote: > On 07/21/2013 01:42 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> Would be possible to generate and provide squashed files at the >> same time tarballs with portage tree snapshots are generated? >> mksquashfs can take a lot of resources depending on the machine, >> but providing the squashed images would still benefit people >> allowing them to download and mount them > > I've establish a cron job on my server to generate gzip and xz > squashed snapshots. I sync distfiles from utwente at 6:05 and generate > the squashfs at 6:35 after verifying the gpg signatures. > There's a 10,5h lag between snapshots and squashfs files - we could > improve if I'm allowed to sync against master rsync/dinstfiles. > > [1] http://lore.xmw.de/gentoo/genberry/snapshots/ > >
I am creating them as well. Perhaps we can bundle the effort. What I also found out that using zsync is quite efficient with squashfs images. I normally don't sync more then 20-30% of the image. Justin
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