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From: SoEasyTo Mirrors Manager <mirrors@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] Mirror survey re rsync --hard-link (distfiles/releases/experimental/snapshots)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:33:02
Message-Id: e97e5e3a8f2444fde9323ce4b7df7b06@soeasyto.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] Mirror survey re rsync --hard-link (distfiles/releases/experimental/snapshots) by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On 2018-01-29 08:54, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 >
3 >> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 02:18:26PM +0100, Alarig Le Lay wrote: Hi,
4 >>
5 >>> On sam. 27 janv. 00:47:39 2018, Robin H. Johnson wrote: Hi,
6 >>>
7 >>> TL;DR: is your mirror fetching with --hard-link/-H? Would adding it
8 >>> be
9 >>> problematic for you? Speak up to save yourself bandwidth!
10 >> I just configured my mirror [1] with -H, but it doesn't seem to have
11 >> any at this time:
12 >> mirror ~ # find /srv/gentoo/ -type f -links +1
13 >> mirror ~ #
14 > That's correct, there aren't any in use presently.
15 > I added an explicit test case:
16 > hardlink-a
17 > hardlink-b
18 >
19 > It should go out to mirrors in the next ~24 hours or so.
20
21 mirrors.soeasyto.com is using hard-links when syncing from master
22 distfiles and master portage.
23
24 There is no particular configuration to forbid them to be used by
25 clients.
26
27 Anyway, I did not find the test case you added on saturday on my mirror.