On 7/29/2019 11:53 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
"SJS" == Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com>
writes:
SJS> So I am going to look at using the hardlink command with a 'do not
SJS> do this, just tell me what you would do' option first. I will
SJS> report to the list what I find. This would be with the hardlink we
SJS> normally ship, but I was wondering if anyone has any new versions
SJS> they recommend.
Well, do note that the hardlinker in quick-fedora-mirror tries to use
the file lists to make things faster. There is an 'ignore timestamps'
mode intended for use on the mirror server. Then the primary
optimization is the assumption that linked files will have identical
filenames, which I don't think a general hardlink program will do.
- J<
Would it be possible to convert some of the hardlinks to softlinks at
the generating source? That seems like it would help make this process
much easier for rsync users overall.
This would especially be the helpful for the few entire directories...
Not sure if it's still the case, but IIRC
rawhide/Everything/source/tree/ and rawhide/Everything/SRPMS/ at one
point seemed functionally identical.
-jc