From owner-freebsd-hubs Fri Apr 4 02:44:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA01202 for hubs-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 02:44:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from icparc-pc-zl.doc.ic.ac.uk (icparc-pc-zl.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.24.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA01146 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 02:43:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from triumph.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.24.1] by icparc-pc-zl.doc.ic.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.61 #1) id 0wD6QY-0000eb-00; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 11:41:02 +0100 Message-ID: <3344DACF.26FB5C33@doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 11:41:19 +0100 From: Lee McLoughlin Organization: IC-Parc, Imperial College, University of London. U.K. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com CC: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD References: <199704040950.BAA10745@root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hubs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman wrote: > > >> Could you, perhaps, mount the new disk inside the FreeBSD area? That > >> way any full mirror would still get it all? > > > >Wurgh, mount spaghetti! :-( > > > >I don't think that David would go for it, to be perfectly honest. > >Isn't it easier just to split the mirror? > > Right - David wouldn't go for it. Bah! OK plan2: Meta-disk the area, personally I really like Veritas on my Solaris boxes, to make one *BIG* disk. Here on SunSITE.doc.ic.ac.uk we use Veritas to create a single 180 Gigabyte disk out of 40, or so, disks. This isn't a frivolous suggestion. I've been running SunSITE for ages and I grew to *really* hate shuffling areas between disks to balance the space. If you decide against it I have some patches for wu-ftpd that gets pwd to report where you chdir'd to not where you physically are. So if FreeBSD/fred/joe is a symlink to ../../../.01/joe then cd FreeBSD/fred/joe pwd -> FreeBSD/fred/joe This doesn't help with mirroring at all but can help avoid confusing users. Lee -- Lee McLoughlin. Phone: +44 171 594 8388 IC-Parc, Imperial College, Fax: +44 171 594 8432 South Kensington, London. SW7 2BZ. UK. Email: L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk