[mirror-admin] rsync and updates-testing -> updates-released

[Ricky Zhou]

On 2009-07-22 07:44:58 PM, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Ricky Zhou (ricky at fedoraproject.org) wrote on 21 July 2009 22:10:
>  >On 2009-07-21 11:01:14 PM, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>  >> How about using a recent version of rsync as well??? That fossil makes
>  >> our script have work around the server limitations :-(
>  >Unfortunately, we don't have any control over those servers, although we
>  >have been working on getting these under our control.  They're running
>  >RHEL4 with rsync 2.6.3, and they're also serving content other than
>  >Fedora stuff.  When we do start to run the rsync servers, they will be
>  >on RHEL5, where we will have a more recent rsync version (2.6.8 right
>  >now) available.
> 
> Good but not enough. rsync v3 has several improvements, some of which
> are particularly useful for mirrors. One of them is a more efficient
> hardlink handling, saving both memory and bandwidth at both ends.
> Another is the possibility to start the download without having to
> wait eons for the full file list; this visibly improves the
> propagation of changes to other mirrors and thus users.
We are working on these servers today, and we have built rsync 3.0.6 for
RHEL5 for this purpose.

Thanks,
Ricky
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