Bug 10994

Summary:	Investigate use of rsync to ease NFS load on autobuilder clusters
Product:	[Infrastructure] AutoBuilder	Reporter:	Joshua Lock <joshuagloe>
Component:	autobuilder	Assignee:	Unassigned <unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	infras.ab.watcher, Infras.watcher, pidge, richard.purdie
Version:	2.3
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Joshua Lock 2017-01-31 16:47:49 UTC

We've seen various issues with NFS on the public autobuilder clusters over recent weeks/months. One possible mitigation would be to reduce our reliance on NFS by making use of rsync for file copying (i.e. in PublishArtifacts).

One concern Beth had with making wider use of rsync was requiring an rsync target is too much setup to expect from users.

This issue is to investigate how much setup that actually requires (as a sysadmin rookie) and whether we could easily support an rysnc and no-rsync solution.

Comment 1 Joshua Lock 2017-02-07 15:55:00 UTC

Relevant docs: https://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html

Comment 2 Richard Purdie 2020-04-09 15:40:26 UTC

Autobuilder2 handles this more efficiently and this isn't a blocking issue as it once was.