On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:27:18AM -0700, Greg Bailey wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > >On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 23:31 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > > > >>Could the parts that are mirrored from Red Hat be timestamped back to > >>their original values? For instance: > >> > >>58217 Oct 29 2003 > >>download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/SRPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-34.src.rpm > >>58217 Feb 27 2004 > >>download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/1/os/SRPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-34.src.rpm > >> > >>This would allow mirrors of both RH and FL to run hardlink over the > >>folders and rescue some bits. > >> > >> > > > >Got a good suggestion on how to do that w/out re-downloading every file > >from RH mirrors? > > > > > > > Wouldn't running rsync over the mirrored parts go fairly quickly if you > already have the full fileset? I recall doing this sort of thing when I > was a RedHat mirror admin in a former life. It didn't take long at all > with the speedup rsync provides. Yes, that would be the easiest. And if one wants to tune this, one can use the -B switch to rsync to use larger blocks for the checksums, but that's probably not neccessary. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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