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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:00:42 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] /n/sources/contrib/
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On Sat Nov 17 13:40:20 EST 2007, mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote:
> that will require BL to give each author in there the ability to
> "push" things to the repository.
> 
> i suggest using something like rsync (tra, most likely:
> http://swtch.com/tra/) to keep track of contrib updates.
> 
> On Nov 16, 2007 10:35 PM,  <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> > I started to mirror the entirety of /n/sources/contrib, but the
> > results are disappointing.
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken, there is no "replica" facility around "contrib",
> > could it be arranged?
> >
> > ++L

why not do this at a level below the fs.  venti is write once.  so
after a fossil dump, the skinny on the arena offsets and the score
of the superblock (or whatever fossil calls it) could be relayed
to the mirror site which could pull (or be pushed) the updated
arena(s).  recover (or whatever fossil calls it) the mirror fossil
from the new superblock and you're done.

- erik