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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>, gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage rsync hardlink support
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 06:54:14
Message-Id: 7594901D-54AF-4100-A1B8-7CEA2D1CC82D@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage rsync hardlink support by Zac Medico
1 Dnia 8 lipca 2018 08:08:31 CEST, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> napisał(a):
2 >Please review.
3 >
4 >Title: Portage rsync hardlink support
5 >Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
6 >Posted: 2018-07-11
7 >Revision: 1
8 >News-Item-Format: 2.0
9 >Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage
10 >
11 >For users of the rsync tree, beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.3.42,
12 >the default behavior for sync operations will use hardlinks in order
13 >to ensure that a repository remains in a valid state if something
14 >goes wrong [1]. For example, if signature verification fails during a
15 >sync operation, the new hardlink behavior will preserve the previous
16 >state of the repository.
17 >
18 >The new behavior may conflict with configurations that restrict the
19 >use of hardlinks, such as overlay filesystems. Therefore, users will
20 >have to set "sync-allow-hardlinks = no" in repos.conf if they have
21 >a configuration that restricts the use of hardlinks, but this should
22 >not be very common:
23 >
24 >[DEFAULT]
25 >sync-allow-hardlinks = no
26 >
27 >[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/660410 sys-apps/portage: use rsync
28 > --link-dest to implement atomic repository updates (and abort if
29 > signature verification fails)
30
31 Is safe git syncing implemented already? If not, maybe finish it first and cover both with a single news item. Git is going to be more efficient here, so people may want to learn they have an alternative.
32
33 --
34 Best regards,
35 Michał Górny (by phone)

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