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RE: Ah, I just noticed something...

Christopher Faylor wrote on 08 August 2008 15:26:

> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:02:11PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> ...  unionfs doesn't play entirely nicely with remote mirrors updating
>> by rsync.  I've got two of everything[*] in my internal mirror now!
> 
> Uh, of course.  What would you expect?

  Didn't expect anything, not having thought about it before.  Hence my
surprise.

>  It looks like two of everything on
> sourceware so mirrors would duplicate it verbatim.

  I might have a go with rsync -H and see if the unionfs looks like
hardlinks to rsyncd.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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