[mirror-admin] Fedora 12 release day - bitflip & report

[Carlos Carvalho]

Chris Schanzle (schanzle at nist.gov) wrote on 19 November 2009 15:46:
 >I also found several sub-optimal hard-linking between Everything and 
 >Fedora trees.
 >
 >The biggest offender was that kernels (~20MB each) were not hard-linked, 
 >but could have been.  E.g.,
 >./Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.rpm
 >    ./Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.rpm
 >
 >./Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/kernel-debug-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.rpm
 >    ./Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/kernel-debug-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.rpm

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OTOH,

Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) wrote on 12 November 2009 14:04:
 >The Everything/ tree is just rpms which all hardlink into
 >development/.

Shouldn't all files in Everything be created as hardlinks? This way
there'd never be misses, so I find it strange that some happen. I'd
expect the contrary, that some files that should be different end up
as hardlinks.

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