Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 10:24:52 +0100 From: Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD Message-ID: <3344C8E4.C6DC9D8@doc.ic.ac.uk> References: <17711.860119647@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > We've overflowed our 1st 4Gb partition there and now need to go to a > 2nd, but that means splitting off some of the bits which were > traditionally confined to one filesystem, and I'm still not sure what > the effects on the mirrors is going to be. If you mirror individual > collections, like pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7.1-RELEASE/, then you should be OK > since mirror should follow the symlink. If you're grabbing all > of pub/FreeBSD, however, what you're going to see afterwards is a link: > 2.1.7.1-RELEASE -> ../../.3/FreeBSD/2.1.7.1-RELEASE > > I'm not quite sure what the "best" work-around for this is, but > I just thought I'd mention it. Sorry folks, but it had to happen > sooner or later - the ports and packages are huge! ;-) > > This doesn't effect users who get their bits from ftp.freebsd.org > directly, of course, only those who mirror it. > > Jordan Could you, perhaps, mount the new disk inside the FreeBSD area? That way any full mirror would still get it all? -- 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
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