On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:04 -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
On 7/18/06, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu> wrote:
> >>>>> "sv" == seth vidal <skvidal(a)linux.duke.edu>
writes:
>
> sv> I'm open to other suggestions.
>
> Just ask the mirrors to --exclude repomd.xml and then rsync it at the
> end? It ups the load on the server, though; twice the directory
> traversals.
>
There is also the --delay-updates option to rsync. It causes rsync to
put all the updates in a temporary directory and moves them into place
at the end. The move is fast which makes the update more atomic.
it's only fast if it doesn't cross a partition.
-sv