Calling rsync testers...

[Jesse Keating]

On Thursday 29 January 2004 08:48, Tom Diehl wrote:
> Do you have 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, and 9 on the master?? If so hardlinking
> saves an enormous amount of space. Try running hardlink over the
> directory tree and see.
>
> Do you really think that all of the rpms in 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 are
> unique?? I can tell you that for sure they are not. Even Red Hat uses
> hardlink. When they get too far behind with it the mirror admins
> complain because of the wasted space. Fortunately they are really
> good at keeping up.

I have 7.2-8.0 currently, no 9 yet.

DO you have a method for 100% assurance that the files are exactly the 
same and to hardlink them, w/out doing sha1's of every single file 
trying to compare them etc, etc...  Same names aren't nearly enough 
evidence.

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