Re: [eclipse-mirrors] Size of a full Eclipse mirror?

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On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Carlos Carvalho wrote:

> archive-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (archive-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on 8 July 2010 17:33:
> >Ok our deletetions are trailing due to io errors, I have enabled
> >--delete-during which should help matters and tweeked my chmod line so we
> >dont det io erros having mirrored a closed directory.
> >  --chmod=Du+rwx,u+rw   Providing your mirroring is done by a
> >different user than the webserver is running will probably
> >prevent alot of io errors on your side if mirroring direct from eclipse.
>
> The chmod won't help because the IO errors happen due to wrong
> permissions at the origin, not the destination.
Not strictly true for instance rsync will create a dir it cant traverse 
local or files it can not delete eg a dir with say 600 perms and then fall 
over on the local listing from then on etc...

rsync://download.eclipse.org/eclipseMirror/tools/ajdt/36/update/
Has a number of dirs without user exec perms for example

> >I wouldn't recomment --ignore-errors as you have a tendancy to end up with
> >an empty mirror on occcasions if you must use this set a --max-delete=2500
> >or some such like.
>
> Yes. However, daily updates of the eclipse repo routinely remove
> ~15,000 files or more. Therefore you'll end up with a lot of
> should-have-been-removed files anyway...
>
> The risk is unavoidable.
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Phill.

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