[mirror-admin] redundant transfers testing->updates

[Chris Schanzle]

On 07/13/2011 09:24 AM, Chris Schanzle wrote:
> A friendly suggestion...
>
> For mirrors that carry testing+updates, as packages move from testing to updates, they are transferred again as new files in updates.  It would be a significant reduction in traffic if packages could be be hardlinked from testing to updates, then removed from testing after a reasonable delay (24hrs?).


The recent hardlinking for directory hashing refreshed my memory from the above suggestion, which had no further discussion.  Stupid idea or decided not worth implementing due to infrastructure design issues?

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