Mirroring: Bad datestamps prevent hardlinking

[Greg Bailey]

Jesse Keating wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 23:31 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
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>>Could the parts that are mirrored from Red Hat be timestamped back to
>>their original values? For instance:
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>>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
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>>This would allow mirrors of both RH and FL to run hardlink over the
>>folders and rescue some bits.
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>Got a good suggestion on how to do that w/out re-downloading every file
>from RH mirrors?
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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.

-Greg Bailey