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 down to any actual mirror uses that option... so knowing which mirrors run --delay-updates and which don't might be useful. 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.
