[mirror-admin] F17 directory structure and no hardlinking

Carlos Carvalho carlos at fisica.ufpr.br
Fri Feb 10 12:38:41 EST 2012


Kevin Fenzi (kevin at scrye.com) wrote on 10 February 2012 09:43:
 >On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:33:26 -0600
 >Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
 >
 >> Fedora 17 was branched from rawhide, but once again, no hardlinking
 >> was done.  This means that all the mirrors are attempting to
 >> redownload gigabytes of data, rather than syncing hardlinks in a
 >> short time.  This really needs to be fixed in whatever tools are used
 >> for staging on the master mirrors.
 >
 >Everything should be hard linked. Dennis doublechecked and re-ran
 >hardlink on it. 

Now. What Chris was complaining about, and me too, is that it was done
after the first big download.

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