On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> > what extra work would that be, >> >> that it pulls files in their entirety (IOW: cp /n/sources/... /) > > i would be very suprised if a single copy of sources had many shared > blocks.
He doesn't want a single copy though, he is hoping to mirror sourcesdump. That's 2255 almost-copies of sources. Yes, there will be changes in each snapshot, but how often does something like /extra/python.iso.bz2 change? -sqweek