Re: Do you know this mirror?

[Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov>]

bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) writes:
>
> Except for the Packages file I see no advantage for rsync in the case
> of the deb archive.  In fact I see a serious advantage for using
> http.  Pull the Packages files locally and then do all of the system
> stats locally.  It would seem to be the lightest on the server of the
> available options.

1) Automatic deletion of files on the mirror when they disappear
upstream.

2) Preservation of hard links and the resulting preservation of disk
space.

I aggree that rsync's bandwidth-saving-through-binary-diffs feature
goes unused.

-Brett.