On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Jesse Keating wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 29 January 2004 08:06, Tom Diehl wrote: > > The problem is if the master site is not hard linked then your site will > > not be hard linked. That is what rsync does. If the master site is hard > > linked then using -H is the only way to preserve them, in spite of what > > the WIKI says. Since I do not mirror legacy I do not know if the master > > site is hardlinked or not. If it is not IMO it should be. :-) > > Why should it be? I only have one copy of the content on the mirror > server, and it's in the directories you have access to. Do you have 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, and 9 on the master?? If so hardlinking saves an enormous amount of space. Try running hardlink over the directory tree and see. Do you really think that all of the rpms in 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 are unique?? I can tell you that for sure they are not. Even Red Hat uses hardlink. When they get too far behind with it the mirror admins complain because of the wasted space. Fortunately they are really good at keeping up. Keep in mind this only works if you run rsync with -H though. FWIW In Red Hat's how to setup a mirror doc (Or whatever it is called) they recommend running with -H. HTH, .............Tom
