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,
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Wessel Dankers <wsl@nl.linux.org>
parallel processors running perpendicular today
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