Doubts about wiki page ExistingRepositoryReplicationMethods

[Andreas J. Koenig]

>>>>> On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:59:37 -0700, Kyle Kienapfel <doctor.whom at gmail.com> said:

  > Replying to this (just signed up for list, sorry it wont work properly)
  > https://www.redhat.com/archives/instantmirror-list/2009-April/msg00005.html
  > andreas, my perl is very rusty
 >> print $fh (time."\n") x 1000000;

  > am I correct in guessing that this prints the current time a million times?

Yes.

  > I assumed that the con about a desync had to do with the index data
  > being updated before all the new files arrive.

Of course, if there are semantic relations between data files that
demand a certain ordering in the mirror process then ordinary rsync
will not "do the right thing". It will need some help to get the
ordering right.

  > It could also be a problem with how rsync handles files, if I'm
  > rsyncing BIGFILE is it named BIGFILE on disk while its arriving?

No.

-- 
andreas