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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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> 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. 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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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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