On 7/29/2019 11:53 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
"SJS" == Stephen John Smoogen smooge@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