El dom, 21-07-2013 a las 16:46 +0200, justin escribió: > 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 >
Maybe infra could be contacted to try to share the effort (and also offer the snapshot in a bit more "official" way, I mean, similar to tarballs with snapshots)
