[mirror-admin] redundant transfers testing->updates

[Dennis Gilmore]

El Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:57:02 -0500
Chris Schanzle <schanzle at nist.gov> escribió:
> 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?
> 
> --

this was supposed to b happening. maybe i need to add a manual hardlink
or --link-dest on the scripts that push bits to the mirrors.

Thanks for the reminder.

Dennis

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