FAI performance

[Denny Schierz]

Am 25.09.2012 um 10:07 schrieb Thomas Neumann <blacky+fai at fluffbunny.de>:

>> so it would be better, to use ftp to transmit the big files.
> two different entvironments and didn't know about the glory of revision
> control systems. Tar'ing and copying 500MB of data gets old quite fast.]

because:

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"My config space is indeed  in order of 10GB :> "

If you have to transfer ~10GB to several clients at the same time, and you are not satisfied with the speed (NFS / tar ...) you should reconsider the underlying protocol. I red month ago an article to use bittorrent to transfer big files to get install several hundreds or thousands clients. Every installed client could acts as torrent client, before the first reboot. You need only a special place to hold the temporary data. The first clients need a lot of time, but every next ...

I also think, that FTP is the fastest protocol for transferring a lot of data  - I don't like FTP, 'cause of the complicated firewall settings .... -  

Maybe also mutlicast is an option, UFTP for example or mrsync ...

cu denny