Mirroring Fedora

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Sat Nov 29 19:09:42 UTC 2008


Thomas Cameron wrote:
> I know that there are a ton of duplicate files between the i386 and
> the  x86_64 directories.  Is there an easy way to do something like
> hard link  duplicate files or maybe a better way to rsync so that
> duplicate files  are considered?

There is a -H option for rsync, to make it preserve hardlinks.  This
and other useful tips for mirroring are at:

    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring

Running hardlink on your mirror can also help (and is also mentioned
at the URL above).

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