Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:26:17 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:42:09AM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:16:15AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > That doesn't include anyone who uses the mirrored repository on the
> > > main kernel.org machines.  
> > 
> > Last I checked, kernel.org isn't offering pserver access, just ftp.  If you
> > want to take over the CVS access just say the word.
> 
> It is faster for me to use rsync on the CVS root locally, and then use the 
> local repository instead. Rsync is better than CVS when it comes to syncs.
> Cvsps expecially, really wants a local repository when you start playing 
> heavily with -g.

same here, however the rsync export on kernel.org is lacking a two
sequence number locking that would allow us to checkout a coherent copy
of the cvs repository.  Currently it works by luck.

if we add the two sequence numbers to the rsync on kernel.org, I believe
shutting down the pserver is ok.
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