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

[Chris Schanzle]

On 01/19/2012 10:23 AM, 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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It wouldn't be bandwidth-intensive if you created the hashed directories via hardlinks, even for just one day.

Curious - if you know off the top of your head - what's the hashing algorithm/tool?

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