On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 04:59:33PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2023-09-20, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 19/09/23 at 13:52 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > >> * Looking forward and backwards at snapshots > >> > >> I do think that a more complete snapshot approach is probably better > >> than package-specific snapshots, and it might be worth doing > >> forward-looking snapshots of ftp.debian.org (and security.debian.org and > >> incoming.debian.org), in addition to trying to fill out all the missing > >> past snapshots to be able to attempt verification builds of older > >> packages, such as all of bookworm. > >> > >> Snapshotting the archive(s) multiple times per day, today, tomorrow, and > >> going forward will at least enable doing verification rebuilds of > >> packages starting from this point, with less immediate overhead than > >> trying to replicate the entire functionality or more complete history of > >> snapshot.debian.org. > > In the meantime, I worked on a naive implementation of this, using > debmirror and btrfs snapshots (zfs or xfs are other likely candidates > for filesystem-level snapshots). It is working better than I expected!
Isn't this more or less what has been tried few times before, and it works only until you load it with years worth of data? -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab
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