W dniu pon, 29.01.2018 o godzinie 20∶00 +0000, użytkownik Robin H. Johnson napisał: > 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.
That's great news! So now we just have to figure a tool out that will create the hardlinks ;-). Are we still using emirrordist? > 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. > Does this mean you'll update it /have updated it/ or you're suggesting that somebody else should do it? ;-) -- Best regards, Michał Górny
