[csw-maintainers] Repository Woos

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 10.09.2011 um 14:25 schrieb Jonathan Craig <jcraig at opencsw.org>:

> No problem.  Can you point me to anything that will get me started
> understanding the existing process and will I need any additional
> privileges (access to the master repository, etc.).  I worked up a
> quick and dirty perl script to fix my repository that I should be able
> to rework for the master. If the repository is held on a zfs
> filesystem on another box it would be nice to have access to that box
> to setup and run the process (use of zfs snaphots makes me a lot less
> nervous about linking/unlinking a large number of files).

There is already dist-hardlinkify on web which generates a shell script to fix doubles.

Best regards

  -- Dago

> 
> Jon
> 
> 2011/9/10 Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
>> 2011/9/10 Jonathan Craig <jcraig at opencsw.org>:
>>> Just curious if anyone else is rsync'ing a local copy of the
>>> repository.  At some point my rsync messed up and broke my hard links
>>> which caused a dramatic increase in storage requirements.  Did anyone
>>> else experience this?  Also, I wondered about re-swizzling the links
>>> so actual files are always stored in "allpackages" and everything else
>>> would use symlinks.  The problem is once rsync breaks your hard links
>>> you have to manually go through and recreate them.
>> 
>> I personally didn't investigate this issue yet.  All the new packages
>> are uploaded to allpkgs and then hardlinked, so the "one physical copy
>> of each file" rule should hold for anything new.  But I didn't write
>> any checks to verify this is actually the case.  Would you be willing
>> to develop / provide some sort of diagnostic and/or fixing tool for
>> the catalog?
>> 
>> Maciej
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