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Leesa Yim wrote:

> 3.  I still haven't heard any reason to actually use rsync --hard-link. 
> Is this necessary to be a reliable mirror site?  How long would it take
> to rsync with the --hard-link option for the first time (when I've been
> running rsync without --hard-link option)?

- - it speeds up the rsync (since no new files have to be downloaded, but
only a hardlink)
- - it reduces the network load
- - it reduces the load on the upstream servers
- - it improves the performance of your own server, it now has only one
file to cache, instead of 2

that better? :)

Mike
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