[mirror-admin] ERROR: chroot failed for fedora-web

[Paulo Licio de Geus]

Carlos Carvalho wrote:

> Paulo Licio de Geus (paulo at las.ic.unicamp.br) wrote on 15 January 2009 19:41:
>  >Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>  >
>  >> Carlos Carvalho (carlos at fisica.ufpr.br) wrote on 16 January 2009 00:18:
>  >>  >I was going to ask you for the specs of report_mirror, that is, what
>  >>  >info it sends and how. Then I can provide you the info with what I
>  >>  >have here without the dreadful disk scan.
>  >>
>  >> In fact, it'd be much better if we could send only what has changed
>  >> instead of the whole list. Even better, we could just give
>  >> report_mirror a list, either of changes or complete, and it'd transmit
>  >> it as it does now.
>  >>
>  >> --
>  >>
>  >>   
>  >
>  >But then out-of-syncs would remain untouched.
>
> Not sure what you mean here. Files not mentioned in the changes are
> supposedly already registered.
>
>  >A periodic full scan or the whole list available for some more
>  >relaxed, periodic checking would do it...
>
> Both the disk scan and sending the full list are necessary only for
> the first time. That's why I said above that the reporter should
> accept both changes and the whole list.
>   

Quoting you:

> Exactly. Incremental lists are not robust. Worse, they are even not
> necessary.


Sh*t happens, i.e. failures will occur. The question is when/how your
out-of-sync server (away from the changed list) will be able to recover.

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