[mirror-admin] Still having problems syncing

[Chuck Anderson]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:59:53PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> I'm working on pulling from kernel.org, but I just stopped that.  It
> appears that a large number of the file timestamps have been updated,
> which is causing my mirror to redownload a huge chunk of content (since
> I use --delay-updates, I was close to running out of disk space).

I'm in the exact same situation--running out of disk space with 
--delay-updates due to timestamp changes.  I've done a couple manual 
syncs using --size-only and without --delay-updates to work around 
that.

> If the timestamps have been updated, all the mirrors would be trying to
> redownload a large amount of data simultaneously, which could be a cause
> of load issues.

I was wondering about the timestamp issues.  I think I got a bunch of 
files with older timestamps when I synced to Duke.  I'm guessing that 
when someone downloaded the bunch of updates directly from koji, that 
the timestamps where incorrect, but this is just a guess.

Right now I'm trying to sync to ibiblio, and I'm seeing some weird 
things, like a bunch (perhaps *all*) of "new" updates/9/*.newkey 
content.  Are we supposed to be getting new content for Fedora 9 
updates?  Or were the timestamps changed there too?

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