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W dniu pon, 29.01.2018 o godzinie 20∶00 +0000, użytkownik Robin H. |
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Johnson napisał: |
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> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:37:47PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Migrating mirrors to the hashed structure |
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> ... |
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> > The hard link solution allows us to save space on the master mirror. |
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> > Additionally, if ``-H`` option is used by the mirrors it avoids |
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> > transferring existing files again. However, this option is known |
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> > to be expensive and could cause significant server load. Without it, |
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> > all mirrors need to transfer a second copy of all the existing files. |
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> Informational only, not for addition to GLEP: |
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> I have surveyed some Gentoo mirrors (via the -mirrors mailing list, and |
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> direct email), and everybody so far was using already hard-links. |
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That's great news! So now we just have to figure a tool out that will |
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create the hardlinks ;-). Are we still using emirrordist? |
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> Older |
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> releng practices for the 2004/2005 releases used hard-links on mirrors, |
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> which is where this came from. The Mirror documentation should be |
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> updated to say that mirrors should use both --links and --hard-links. |
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Does this mean you'll update it /have updated it/ or you're suggesting |
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that somebody else should do it? ;-) |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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