Glad to hear it went so well for the first time! This problem sounds like something perfect for a reliable multicast file distribution mechanism! Just one host needs to have direct access to the drive with the tables and loops through the entire set streaming over a multicast capable network. Then anyone who wants to get the tables just has to listen in and wait for the cycle to complete. As more people get it more sources can stream to different addresses sending either different portions of the table set or starting at different offsets.
--Harley On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > So, Shmoocon is over and the swapshop happened. Unfortunately it > wasn't as successful as it could have been but for the first attempt I > think it went OK. > > A number of people donated tables and others leached sets, the problem > turned out to be that the initial donation was about 300GB and to copy > that from one external disk to a second was taking up to 7 hours, when > two people were copying that time shot up even more. > > When I get back home to the UK I'll do an inventory of what I > collected and find some way to share it out to those who want copies. > I'll also have a play with different methods of running the system to > try to drop that time down to something more manageable. > > Thanks to Darren and Larry for donating hardware and the PaulDotCom > crew in general for keeping an eye on the setup while I was running > round doing other con activities. > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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