[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Nov 29 19:25:45 CET 2010

On lundi 29 novembre 2010 at 01:45, Olivier Thauvin wrote :
+> * Renaud MICHEL (r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com) wrote:
+> > On samedi 27 novembre 2010 at 00:02, Maarten Vanraes wrote :
+> > If the files are identical, they can be hard linked, and then the
+> > mirrors  updates them with rsync -aH.
+> > (by the way, the readme already ask for those options
+> > http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/mirror.readme )
+> > It is quite easy to make a script that will make those hard links "à 
+> > posteriori" (you only need to compare files with identical names)
+> 
+> If you compare only the filename you'll probably link different file. To
+> do this you need at least to compare also the size.
+
+No, I wrote to compare files *with* identical names, in the sense that there 
+is no need to compare files whose name differ (because they refer to another 
+package or another version).
+But you must compare them and check they are identical bit by bit (with comp 
+for example).
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+