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From: "Adrian Sándor" <aditsu@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] Mirror survey re rsync --hard-link (distfiles/releases/experimental/snapshots)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:08:46
Message-Id: 6a997528-2f9f-9595-7284-ae90a0fd66c3@yahoo.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] Mirror survey re rsync --hard-link (distfiles/releases/experimental/snapshots) by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 Hi, reporting for gentoo.aditsu.net
2
3 On 27/01/2018 08:47, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
4 > To this end, I'm like to know
5 > 1. How many mirrors are already fetching from rsync with the
6 > --hard-link/-H option.
7 > 2. How many mirrors would NOT be able to enable rsync fetching with
8 > hard-links.
9 I have added -H just now.
10
11 > 3. Does your mirror offer or explicitly reject hard-link data to users?
12 My mirror is http only.
13
14
15 On 29/01/2018 15:54, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
16 > I added an explicit test case:
17 > hardlink-a
18 > hardlink-b
19 I can see it now:
20
21 # find . -type f -links +1
22 ./diradm-2.9.7.1.tar.bz2
23 ./hardlink-a
24 ./hardlink-b
25 # find . -samefile hardlink-a
26 ./diradm-2.9.7.1.tar.bz2
27 ./hardlink-a
28 ./hardlink-b
29
30 Hope that answers all your questions.
31
32 Best regards,
33 Adrian

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