Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:20:18 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: jason@dstc.edu.au Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new dist area ? Message-ID: <199901240420.UAA16582@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199901240352.NAA22103@piglet.dstc.edu.au>
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In article <199901240352.NAA22103@piglet.dstc.edu.au>, jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> wrote: > > > FreeBSD-current -> branches/-current > > personally i think it's a mistake to have a directory name like > -current, but i'm not a maintainer.. I'd have to agree with you about that. > i'm getting a little frustated at changes with no warnings. am i not > on a list somewhere where perhaps someone is sending out all the > changes that are occuring ? It was announced on the FreeBSD-hubs list. Didn't you see it? > i'm using a combination of `mirror' (fmirror doesn't compile yet on > solaris 2.6.. looking into it. sigh) and CVSup and one or both would > appear to be broken currently by structural changes. > > are hard links used extensively in the archive ? another case for > either using rsyncd which allows your downstream mirrors to save > on disk by mirroring hardlinks, or for running nicolai langfeldt's > (sp?) md5 checksum hard linking space saver. CVSup preserves hard links. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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