[mirror-admin] upcoming disruption in rawhide, F17-branched

[Dave Torrey]

Is there any way to reduce bandwidth by using hardlinks as an
intermediate stage?

i.e.:

Step 1:  Packages/b/bla-x.y.z.rpm => Packages/bla-x.y.z.rpm

Step 2:  Allow mirrors to sync

Step 3:  Remove Packages/bla-x.y.z.rpm

Dave

On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 10:23 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> At the request of assorted mirror people, we're changing the layout of the
> tree slightly.
> 
> Instead of Packages/<20,000 packages>, we're intending to hash the packages
> by first letter. 
> 
> You will get:
> 
> Packages/a/<some packages>
> Packages/b/<some pacakges>
> 
> etc.
> 
> We're intending to start this with the initial landing of the F17 branched
> tree. However, we'd also want to do this in rawhide going forwards. We can
> start this switch at any time, but it would be a bandwidth-intensive event
> for mirrors whenever we do it. Is there a preference for switching rawhide
> a) when we branch F17 b) a week before we branch F17 c) tomorrow...?
> 
> Bill
> 
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