On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 13:10 -0500, Mark Lee wrote: > On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 11:15 -0500, Simon Gomizelj wrote: > > Not to be that guy... but your link explains. Like right in the first 5 > > sentences. > > > > > The check script runs on a regular basis and polls for the lastsync file > > in the root of our repository layout. This file is regularly updated on the > > central repository, so checking the value within allows one to see if the > > mirror has synced recently. > > > > There is a file called lastsync. It is read < > > http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/archlinux/lastsync> > > Salutations, > > Yes, I see that there's a check script but what is it? I'd like to know > how that link calculates percent synchronization for a particular > mirror. I ask this because there have been instances when a mirror is > claimed to be 100% synchronized but isn't. > > Regards, > Mark Salutations, Oh I see it now, so "completion" is only a percentage of the number of times the checkscript is successfully run on a particular mirror without disconnecting. Is the lastsync value a hash value or temporal? Regards, Mark -- Mark Lee <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
