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commit: e398a453a62490fd3ff168887f761e0c91ab50e9 |
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Author: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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AuthorDate: Sun Jul 8 05:51:09 2018 +0000 |
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Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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CommitDate: Wed Jul 11 08:54:05 2018 +0000 |
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URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=e398a453 |
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2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks: Add |
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Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/660410 |
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.../2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks.en.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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diff --git a/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks.en.txt b/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks/2018-07-11-portage-sync-allow-hardlinks.en.txt |
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+Title: Portage rsync hardlink support |
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+Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> |
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+Posted: 2018-07-11 |
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+Revision: 1 |
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+News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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+Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage |
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+ |
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+For users of the rsync tree, beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.3.42, |
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+the default behavior for sync operations will use hardlinks in order |
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+to ensure that a repository remains in a valid state if something |
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+goes wrong [1]. For example, if signature verification fails during a |
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+sync operation, the new hardlink behavior will preserve the previous |
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+state of the repository. |
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+ |
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+The new behavior may conflict with configurations that restrict the |
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+use of hardlinks, such as overlay filesystems. Therefore, users will |
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+have to set "sync-allow-hardlinks = no" in repos.conf if they have |
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+a configuration that restricts the use of hardlinks, but this should |
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+not be very common: |
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+ |
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+[DEFAULT] |
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+sync-allow-hardlinks = no |
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+ |
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+Note that it is possible to sync more efficiently using git [2] |
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+instead of rsync, though git consumes an increasing amount of disk |
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+space over time unless shallow pull is enabled via the sync-depth |
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+option in repos.conf [3] (requires sys-apps/portage-2.3.42 or later). |
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+ |
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+[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/660410 sys-apps/portage: use rsync |
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+ --link-dest to implement atomic repository updates (and abort if |
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+ signature verification fails) |
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+[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_Security#git-mirror_repo |
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+[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/552814 sys-apps/portage: support shallow |
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+ git pull by setting sync-depth = 1 in repos.conf |
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