On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Michael Weber <x...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Cloning the repo [1] takes 200seconds on 8cores (it's 2GB of data and > 22 minutes of 3.4GHz cpus). >
As others have pointed out, probably the best way to bootstrap this is to offer tarballs of a shallow repository and a full repository. Perhaps we'd offer the latter as a torrent. The shallow repository should be light on the CPU too. This would be a lot easier on the server than having everybody and their uncle doing a full 2GB clone. Devs could then do a pull to get the latest and greatest, and that would only transfer the delta. I imagine our mirror network can handle the bandwidth compared to what we're already doing with distfiles. Worst case we could take a one-time hit and use S3 or whatever to do the distribution (they even support bittorrent to cut down on the bill). Rich
