| Re: [eclipse-mirrors] Is it just me or is download.eclipse.org rsync down? |
Dear all, On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:00:40PM +0100, ALTE-ftp-admin-adresse wrote: > While we're at it, would it be possible to keep the master in a > somewhat more consistent state? Even when it's not completely broken > like now, rsync-runs almost never finish without errors, because of > errors like > > rsync: send_files failed to open > > "/modeling/mdt/ocl/updates/milestones/.swp" (in eclipseMirror): > > Permission denied (13) > That naturally makes rsync exit with an error code, and it's thus > impossible to easily see whether the mirror is really broken, or it's > just the usual problem of untransferable files on the master. I complained about this problem five years ago, and managed to get a response: > 1. You will occasionally get permissions errors on your RSYNC. We > have almost 1000 committers that can put files in the download area. > We set the umasks to allow for world-readable by default, but with > 1000 > committers, something is bound to happen. If you can ignore the > permissions errors, I'd suggest you do so. > > -> We have over 1.7 million files in our download area -- not all of > them are mirrored to you. With this amount of files it is difficult > for us to automatically fix permissions. We used to do it, but now > it's just tedious and it doesn't guarantee you'll never see errors Best regards, Carsten -- Carsten Otto otto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx LuFG Informatik 2 http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/ RWTH Aachen phone: +49 241 80-21211
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