Subj : nlupd and daily nodelists
To   : Kai Richter
From : Fabio Bizzi
Date : Fri May 14 2021 08:52:44

Hello Kai!

13 May 21 18:22, you wrote to me:

 FB>> Well, it's time to change it, isn't it? :P

 KR> Why? What for? Do you know what a official weekly nodelist based
 KR> tracker would do with routed netmails to new added nodes of the
 KR> daylist?

It's obviuos, it would bounce them back to the originating node.

 KR> Did you weigh up the pros against the cons?

yes, more or less, and I'd like the possibility to have a daily nodelist updated tracker, it suits my RC needs.

 KR> Weekly diff is ~5k, daily list is ~190k x 7. The data efficiency,
 KR> power consumtion and disk wear is decreased by 26600%.

Are you seious? :D
Nowdays, with ssd and gigabit ethernet links, you are speaking about it?

 KR> nlupdate looks to be designed to fetch a diff from the fileecho. This
 KR> is done to protect the diff files via tic file security. The 7 day
 KR> block looks like a protection against revision mismatch:
[...]

Daily lists don't have diffs. ;)

I don't want to change your mind, probably the weekly nodelist suits your needs, my need, instead, is to have a daily updated nodelist.

So I think that a "Daily" option in the "Nodelist" section of fidoconfig could address the issue, like this:

nodelist Z2DAILY
FullUpdate /home/husky/fileBase/z2pnt/Z2PNT
Daily
NodelistFormat Standard

The daily option will tell to nlupdate to change the +7 days with a +1 day only for that nodelist and we can check that it can do it only with a FullUpdate directive.

I have to try it, but only afther the 18th of this month. ;)

Ciao!
Fabio
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