On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:59:21PM -0400, Charles R. Anderson wrote: > >From a mirroring perspective, it is much more efficient to have an > all-updates directory containing all the real files, and a > latest-updates directory containing only symlinks to the newest files > in the other directory. That way rsync can sync the symlinks with > --delete and you don't have to download the files again when they > become obsolete and would otherwise be moved between directories. But then there wouldn't be anything to --exclude easily (for mirrors concerned about space). To avoid the multiple-download problem, when the new update appears, a hard link to the old update could be created in the obsolete-updates directory. The updates directory copy could then be deleted a week later (or whatever). As long as mirrors are using rsync -H and mirroring regularly, they'd never need to re-download an update. Steve -- Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxx http://www.kspei.com/ Phone: (618)398-7360 Mobile: (618)567-7320
