[CentOS-mirror] Temporary files again in CentOS

Mon Jan 6 18:06:31 UTC 2014
Ralph Angenendt <ralph.angenendt at gmail.com>

On 22.12.2013 08:40, Hexchain Tong wrote:

> Also, our mirror has a mechanism of checking timestamp files (/TIME
> and /timestamp.txt) before rsync to reduce disk load, but lots of time
> we have seen only the timestamp itself changed. Is this intended or a
> problem?

This is intended. We want to see the last time the mirror synced. If
timestamp and the current time are more than 24 hours(?) apart, the
mirror will be flagged as late and doesn't show up in the mirrorlists
anymore.

Cheers,

Ralph