hi! While we're at this topic, there's something to be said for structuring mirroring into four phases: 1) Download all new files in the tree 2) Download all changed files in the tree to a temporary directory 3) Quickly replace all changed files with the new versions at once (not one at a time as rsync does) 4) Delete all files that have disappeared from the master archive. This would prevent the typical inconsistencies that occur in a mirror during updating and which are the #1 reason for people to use some sort of slower master site: what good is a fast mirror if you get a bunch of 404's? Cheers, -- Wessel Dankers <wsl@nl.linux.org> parallel processors running perpendicular today
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