Calling rsync testers...

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Jesse Keating wrote:

> 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.

I would suggest using the hardlink program.

It can be found on:
path_to_your_favorite_redhat_mirror/redhat/mirror-tools/hardlink-1.2-1.i386.rpm

HTH,

.Tom