From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A16C1382C5 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:09:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BB67E08E0; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:09:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EAF6CE0B21 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:09:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot (d202-252.icpnet.pl [109.173.202.252]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF79C335C0B; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1517260154.1187.27.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Split distfile mirror directory structure (draft v2) From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:09:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1517009079.31015.3.camel@gentoo.org> <1517254667.1187.25.camel@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.24.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 6e9d04b1-f1cc-4457-b586-cfcfffd5125f X-Archives-Hash: b5c6c712494d7f910173a2ca778f8ec5 W dniu pon, 29.01.2018 o godzinie 20∶00 +0000, użytkownik Robin H. Johnson napisał: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:37:47PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > > Migrating mirrors to the hashed structure > > ----------------------------------------- > > ... > > The hard link solution allows us to save space on the master mirror. > > Additionally, if ``-H`` option is used by the mirrors it avoids > > transferring existing files again. However, this option is known > > to be expensive and could cause significant server load. Without it, > > all mirrors need to transfer a second copy of all the existing files. > > Informational only, not for addition to GLEP: > I have surveyed some Gentoo mirrors (via the -mirrors mailing list, and > direct email), and everybody so far was using already hard-links. That's great news! So now we just have to figure a tool out that will create the hardlinks ;-). Are we still using emirrordist? > Older > releng practices for the 2004/2005 releases used hard-links on mirrors, > which is where this came from. The Mirror documentation should be > updated to say that mirrors should use both --links and --hard-links. > Does this mean you'll update it /have updated it/ or you're suggesting that somebody else should do it? ;-) -- Best regards, Michał Górny