On 2013/07/17 14:29, Marc Espie wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:32:31PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > [ CC'ing mirrors-discuss; any mirror operators who have plenty of disk > > space (especially second-levels), it would be helpful to switch to using > > --delay-updates in your rsync lines. It won't fix all occurrences of this, > > but should significantly reduce them. ] > > Heck, I didn't know about that option. > > It is significantly more useful if the full chain from the main feed
>From the package build machine, too - that can take significant time.. > down to any actual mirror uses that option... so knowing which mirrors > run --delay-updates and which don't might be useful. ftp.ch and mirror.esc7.net do for sure. I think the fanout does something different but equivalent. But it's probably best to budget on 100GB free space, maybe more around release time, if using this. > thinking about this further, this also means that a mirror should > ignore .~tmp~ directories... I don't know if they do so already, but > pulling tmp files looks a significant waste of bandwidth to me. > .~tmp~ is mode 700, so unless the ftp server runs as the same uid as the file owner (hopefully not!) they are protected anyway.
