On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:37:47PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Migrating mirrors to the hashed structure > ----------------------------------------- ... > The hard link solution allows us to save space on the master mirror. > Additionally, if ``-H`` option is used by the mirrors it avoids > transferring existing files again. However, this option is known > to be expensive and could cause significant server load. Without it, > all mirrors need to transfer a second copy of all the existing files. Informational only, not for addition to GLEP: I have surveyed some Gentoo mirrors (via the -mirrors mailing list, and direct email), and everybody so far was using already hard-links. Older releng practices for the 2004/2005 releases used hard-links on mirrors, which is where this came from. The Mirror documentation should be updated to say that mirrors should use both --links and --hard-links.
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