[mirror-admin] Why still *lots* of download in releases/11?

[Matt Domsch]

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:11:13PM -0700, J.H. wrote:
> Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> >Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) wrote on 6 June 2009 12:13:
> > >I just sampled a few packages on the master server, and the rpms in
> > >Everything/ have the same inode as the rpms in development/.
> >
> >Confirmed, updating from download.f.r.com does hardlinking. It's
> >kernel.org that's broken.
> 
> *sigh* This looks like more 'excitement' with respect to the newly 
> requested rsyncFilter and the brokenness / churn that happened recently.
> 
> Specifically this *was* hard linked when rsyncFilter set things up to be 
> synced in a single go (development and 11/ directory), however when the 
> permissions got thrashed on the 11/ directory and it got deleted then 
> changed back and resyned back out *poof* no more hard linking as the two 
> directories weren't in the same sync (in fact the development directory 
> was explicitly excluded as nothing had changed there).

Arrgghh.  Hardlinks.  In directories that aren't marked as having
changed.  So they're not in the rsyncFilter list.  So they hardlinks
are getting broken.

If that is to be at all useful then, MM will have to learn about
hardlinks, not something it's prepared to do at this time (it doesn't
keep per-file stat() information for every file).

With this knowledge, please stop using rsyncFilter until this is
resolved (which can't be soon).


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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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