Calling rsync testers...

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:57:32AM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > OK, we've mirrored the whole tree, using hard-linking, but only Red
> 
> How did you do this?
> 
> I've tried pre-hardlinking my Red Hat mirror to the fedora legacy tree
> (following http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraMirrorHOWTO), but every
> time I start rsync, it un-hardlinks the files and redownloads them.  I
> moved the linked files to the single i386 and SRPMS directories for
> legacy, and the dates, times, and file sizes match.  The contents are
> also identical.  For example, these are commands I am using for 7.2
> updates:
[...]

Well, for me it worked just as simply locally hard-linking the files 
before running rsync:

onedir# for i in /ftp/mirrors/..../RedHat/RPMS/*.rpm; do ln $i; done
otherdir# for j in /ftp/mirrors/..../SRPMS/*.rpm; do ln $j; done

dunno if it didn't work for you. 

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