Static server side listing

[Kevin Korb]

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afaik, there is nothing in rsync that can do what you are asking for.
 I don't know of anything outside of rsync that can do it either but
then I don't know everything.

My initial thought is to provide a tarball and/or a snapshot from some
change management system.

On 12/22/11 00:22, Mark Constable wrote:
> On 22/12/11 14:59, Kevin Korb wrote:
>>>>> Is it possible to provide a static listing on a server,
>>>>> say every 24 hours, that a standard end-user rsync can pull
>>>>> and use?
>>>> 
>>>> Sounds like a job for a snapshot.  If you are on Linux that 
>>>> would be an lvm2 snapshot.  Other operating systems with
>>>> basic volume management usually have an equivalent.
>>> 
>>> Thanks. That sounds like a way to manage the archived files but
>>> I don't understand how that would eliminate the dynamic
>>> generation of listings that rsyncd provides to clients?
>> 
>> It would provide a static copy.
> 
> Sure, of the archived files themselves. An alternate file tree
> would do the same thing and give me more flexibility to prepare the
> alt tree that is about to be swapped in at the next 24 hour swap
> over point.
> 
>> The rest would be up to the OS to cache in RAM.
> 
> My 20k files situation could grow to 100k files so something has
> to index them all dynamically 100/sec. Even if the directory
> indexes are cached in ram that is still a lot of load on the cpus
> just to do something that could be done once with the results
> provided as a simple single static file, if it were possible.
> 
> I guess my question is now, what would it take to redirect what 
> rsyncd would normally send back to a client, as a listing, to a 
> local server file and then tell rsyncd to use that single pre 
> prepared file for future listing requests from clients?

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