On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 22:01 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 20:56 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > Do you hard link the new release files to the ones identical in rawhide > > > so that rsync doesn't have to transfer them to places mirroring rawhide? > > > > Yes and no. We do use hardlinks, however the mechanism that gets it > > from PHX to Raleigh is Netapp snapmirror, which works at the block > > level. I don't know enough about snapmirror to know if it is helped by > > hardlinks or not. The individual files aren't the real problem, it's > > the isos, particularly the live isos. > > A program similar to Jigdo could speed this up. Transfer only the RPM packages > (taking advantage of hard links) and information on what packages are in each > ISO image, and then recreate the ISO images at the destination. That way each > package would only be transferred once, regardless of how many ISO images it > occurs in. Unfortunately we don't have access/ability to use anything but snapmirror to get content from PHX into RDU where the I2 links are. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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