Re: problem of mirror or rsync ?

[Ricardo Yanez <ricardo.yanez@calel.org>]

Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> I had to split the mirror into two disk due the huge growing in size of 
> archives.
> I tried putting pool/non-free on a separate disk but got a lot of such 
> errors:
>
> rsync: link
> "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian/pool/non-free/o/openc++/openc++_2.8.orig.tar.gz" 
> => main/o/openc++/openc++_2.8.orig.tar.gz failed: Invalid cross-device 
> link (18)
> rsync: link
> "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian/pool/non-free/a/automake1.8-nonfree/automake1.8-nonfr 
>
> ee_1.8.5.orig.tar.gz" => main/a/automake1.8/automake1.8_1.8.5.orig.tar.gz
> failed: Invalid cross-device link (18)
>
> Can mirors be splitted into more volumes?
> incidentally of i split not a section, but a subsection such pool/main/o
> i do not get such errors.
> Second question: why the same file can be simulteneously free and 
> non-free ?

I solved the very same problem by joining disks in a LVM volume. Back 
then there was no way to make rsync preserve symbolic links across two 
file systems. Perhaps that has changed, I don't know.

Ricardo