From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 22 06:10:18 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA03933 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 06:10:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA03899; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 06:10:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199612221410.GAA03899@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: mailing list archives To: dg@root.com Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 06:10:09 -0800 (PST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, marcs@znep.com, jfieber@indiana.edu, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199612220322.TAA21892@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Dec 21, 96 07:22:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman wrote: > > >> Marc Slemko wrote: > >> > > >> > And still speaking of archives, where can the raw archives be ftped from? > >> > >> freefall.freebsd.org > >> /home/mail/archive/ > > > >Not as anonymous ftp.. :-) We should probably get them back online > >soon. I think there's more than enough disk space on wcarchive; about > >175MB since I just house-cleaned the SNAP (which is superceded by > >2.2-ALPHA) and 2.1.5-RELEASE trees. I wonder what the best way of > >getting them across is going to be though... rsync? > > I sure hate the ONE-BIG-FILE archive format. I find it almost entirely > useless. If we were to change it to a one-per-file scheme, it wouldn't be > such a big effort to keep the stuff in sync (hint: I very much dislike > copying several giant multi-megabyte files over to wcarchive continuously). how about: we switch from the one-big file format to monthly files named freebsd-questions-199611, for example each month a new file is started for each list we store the files on wcarchive as well as freefall (or should they be in spatter?) we can rsync the newest file from freefall/spatter to wcarchive each night. (the older files should not change ;) ?? jmb