João Carlos Mendes Luís <jonny at jonny.eng.br> writes: > I've already noticed that almost 30G of data is saved on CentOS > mirrors (only counting release 4/5, i386 and x86_64 archs), just by > using hardlinks for similar packages. ...snip... > Another 300 files, 79Mbytes could be saved. Not as much as what is > already saved, but some (38) of these files are RPMs, so it makes me > wonder if the hardlink process is not automatic at all, and who should I > contact in such cases, if not this list. Could somebody on the CentOS mirror team please comment on this? I also wonder why no hardlink script is run on the CentOS master mirrors. I run a script periodically on our mirror, and as João says this saves a significant amount of disk space. If this were done on the master mirrors it would save bandwidth while mirrors are syncing. Especially when a new minor release is rolled out, as several RPMs in the new release is identical to the old one. This of course only works if everybody runs rsync with -H. Kind regards, Pär Andersson -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20091126/8199d4db/attachment-0004.sig>