On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Jon Lewis wrote:
Would it be best practice for all mirrors to simply add /**/.* to their rsync exclude list?
no -- there is */.diskinfo, and */.treeinfo that are needed; a more granular --exclude regex is needed
I added a post process to let me formally 'see' cruft when it is appearing, so I may report it
-- Russ herrold