From owner-freebsd-hubs Sun Jul 15 6:49:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mother.ludd.luth.se (mother.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A07C837B401 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 06:49:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pantzer@ludd.luth.se) Received: from brother.ludd.luth.se (brother.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.78]) by mother.ludd.luth.se (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13750; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:49:19 +0200 (MEST) Message-Id: <200107151349.PAA13750@mother.ludd.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Peter Wemm Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, pantzer@ludd.luth.se Subject: Re: final state of mirroring ? In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Wemm of "Thu, 31 May 2001 02:31:48 PDT." <20010531093148.3F6623811@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:48:43 +0200 From: Mattias Pantzare Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It has a cvsupd running on it right now, but the configuration is still > somewhat experimental and is not quite right yet. cvsup/cvsupd seem to be > quite a bit less expensive to run than these rsync's. Any progres on cvsupd? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon Jul 16 15: 3:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E1237B403 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6GM3R417661 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:03:27 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:03:37 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: procmail index.shtml still in distfiles ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi, i'd sent something about this to hubs a while ago - basically procmail has an index.shtml file dropped directly into the distfiles directory. this file is still in place. is it possible to get a separate directory for procmail's source so that it doesn't "break" all of the source access for people using http access to mirror sites freebsd archive where SSI is enabled. i'd really prefer not to have to disable SSI for one specific directory. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon Jul 16 23:58:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from bigfatpipe.net (silicone.bigfatpipe.net [128.241.64.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9B437B40E for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:58:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cra@bigfatpipe.net) Received: from cra (helo=localhost) by bigfatpipe.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15MOot-0002KR-00 for hubs@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:58:59 -0700 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:58:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Christopher Allen [BigFatPipe.Net]" To: Subject: Mirror Creation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings. We're interested in putting a FreeBSD mirror on our system, but I'm not finding any documentation on the FreeBSD site about that. Do you have a preferred method over mirror/etc. scripts (hopefully rsync or cvsup)? And if so, can you give me quick specs or point me to a URL with the necessary configuration info? Thanks in advance. Our 100BaseT connection to triple OC48s awaits your reply. ;) -CA -- Christopher R. Allen ------------- cra@bigfatpipe.net -- -- "The art of life lies in constant readjustment to our -- -- surroundings." ----------------------- Okakura Kakuzo -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Jul 17 8:42: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from xbox.ca.360networks.net (xbox.ca.360networks.net [64.251.100.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48EB537B406 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mmayo@360networks.net) Received: by xbox.ca.360networks.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C941193401; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:41:59 -0700 From: Mark Mayo To: "Christopher Allen [BigFatPipe.Net]" Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirror Creation Message-ID: <20010717084159.A70676@360networks.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cra@bigfatpipe.net on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:58:59PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The best resource is the mail archive of this list. You can rsync from ftp-master.freebsd.org if you carry the entire archive (~55GB). -Mark On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:58:59PM -0700, Christopher Allen [BigFatPipe.Net] wrote: > > Greetings. We're interested in putting a FreeBSD mirror on our system, > but I'm not finding any documentation on the FreeBSD site about that. > > Do you have a preferred method over mirror/etc. scripts (hopefully rsync > or cvsup)? And if so, can you give me quick specs or point me to a URL > with the necessary configuration info? > > Thanks in advance. Our 100BaseT connection to triple OC48s awaits your > reply. ;) > > -CA > > -- Christopher R. Allen ------------- cra@bigfatpipe.net -- > -- "The art of life lies in constant readjustment to our -- > -- surroundings." ----------------------- Okakura Kakuzo -- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Jul 17 14:17:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu (ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB11B37B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:17:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu) Received: from mx1.ncsa.uiuc.edu (mx1.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.8]) by ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f6HLHpL04520 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:17:51 -0500 (CDT) X-Envelope-From: jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu X-Envelope-To: Received: from anduril.ncsa.uiuc.edu (anduril.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.102.3]) by mx1.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f6HLHoP17075 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:17:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: from jdugan by anduril.ncsa.uiuc.edu with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15McE1-0003Xd-00 for hubs@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:17:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:17:49 -0500 From: Jon Dugan To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: public rsync server on ftp12 Message-ID: <20010717161749.A13590@ncsa.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm mirroring ftp-master via rsync and decided to make allow public access via rsync as well as ftp on ftp12.freebsd.org. Feel free to use it, especially if you are connected to Abilene or vBNS+ (as we have plenty of capacity to each) or have a path that uses either of those. Right now our commodity is a bit thin, we're waiting for our provider to finish a build out. So I doubt you will get much in the way of performance from this box if you aren't using Abilene or vBNS+. Have fun and let me know if there are problems, Jon -- Jon Dugan | Senior Network Engineer, NCSA Network Development jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu | 269 CAB, 605 E Springfield, Champaign, IL 61820 217/244-7715 | http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/people/jdugan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Jul 17 19:26:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD48B37B405 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:26:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6I2QQs02317; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:26:26 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:26:26 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: "Christopher Allen [BigFatPipe.Net]" Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mirror Creation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Christopher Allen [BigFatPipe.Net] wrote: > > Greetings. We're interested in putting a FreeBSD mirror on our system, > but I'm not finding any documentation on the FreeBSD site about that. there's not a lot of doco about it yet. > Do you have a preferred method over mirror/etc. scripts (hopefully rsync > or cvsup)? And if so, can you give me quick specs or point me to a URL > with the necessary configuration info? rsync is the preferred method, combined with cvsup for the source trees. you need about 50G of disk currently - preferably 75G for the next 12 months if some of the release dates hold true. > Thanks in advance. Our 100BaseT connection to triple OC48s awaits your > reply. ;) it's not the bandwidth anymore, except at peak times (releases).. it's the amount of disk needed to keep up.. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Jul 19 8:38: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6773737B42B for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:37:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010719153759.IAUN18785.femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:37:59 -0700 Message-ID: <3B56FED6.9DBD73ED@math.missouri.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:37:58 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: CTM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have noticed that the mirrors for CTM are very out of date. The up to date CTM's are at ftp://ns3.saargate.de. But that ftp server has low bandwidth, so it would be very helpful if the mirrors could be updated. There is a folder pub/FreeBSD/CTM/x-faulty/ that need not be mirrored. There is another issue. The host computer that creates the CTM delta's sends them to ns3.saargate.de, and the copying process can take a long time (like 12 hours for files like cvs-cur.7300xEmpty.gz). For this reason, there is a big possibility that if you download this file, you will only get half of it, because it is still in the process of being copied. And you will have taken several hours to do this copy, in the process occupying a huge portion of the bandwidth of ns3.saargate.de. I guess a few days later when your mirroring software runs again, you will see that your copy and ns3.saargate.de's copy are different. Does that mean that it will be copied all over again? -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Jul 19 14: 3:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C6C37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6JL3Ws20279; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:03:32 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:03:32 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Cc: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CTM In-Reply-To: <3B56FED6.9DBD73ED@math.missouri.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > I have noticed that the mirrors for CTM are very out of date. The up to > date CTM's are at ftp://ns3.saargate.de. But that ftp server has low > bandwidth, so it would be very helpful if the mirrors could be updated. hi stephen, as a mirror admin, i have to admit, i'm still not clear on what CTM is and who uses it. since you appear to.. o what is it ? o where is the "master" site ? o how much disk space does a full current CTM archive require ? o how does one mirror it ? rsync ? o how does one make it available to end users ? (plain old http/ftp?) o why would someone need access to it over the CVSup tree ? > There is a folder pub/FreeBSD/CTM/x-faulty/ that need not be mirrored. Why does this folder exist if it shouldn't be mirrored ? > There is another issue. The host computer that creates the CTM delta's > sends them to ns3.saargate.de, and the copying process can take a long > time (like 12 hours for files like cvs-cur.7300xEmpty.gz). For this > reason, there is a big possibility that if you download this file, you > will only get half of it, because it is still in the process of being > copied. And you will have taken several hours to do this copy, in the > process occupying a huge portion of the bandwidth of ns3.saargate.de. I > guess a few days later when your mirroring software runs again, you will > see that your copy and ns3.saargate.de's copy are different. Does that > mean that it will be copied all over again? unless locking is implemented, very probably. how large is the file ? what you've described above doesn't lend itself to mirroring/replication at all well in its current setup. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hubs Fri Jul 20 2: 8:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 286A537B403 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 02:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 75632 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Jul 2001 09:12:38 -0000 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:12:37 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: jason andrade Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CTM Message-ID: <20010720121237.B25689@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: jason andrade , Stephen Montgomery-Smith , freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3B56FED6.9DBD73ED@math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jason@dstc.edu.au on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 07:03:32AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 07:03:32AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > I have noticed that the mirrors for CTM are very out of date. The up to > > date CTM's are at ftp://ns3.saargate.de. But that ftp server has low > > bandwidth, so it would be very helpful if the mirrors could be updated. > > hi stephen, > > as a mirror admin, i have to admit, i'm still not clear on what CTM > is and who uses it. since you appear to.. > > o what is it ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html It answers most of your questions, or at least seems to. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hubs Fri Jul 20 11: 6:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB1837B406 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:06:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010720180633.CEJD28228.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:06:33 -0700 Message-ID: <3B587328.1B6C92C5@math.missouri.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:06:32 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CTM References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear Jason, I think there are two issues here. First, what is CTM and why do people use it, and secondly, what are the mechanics of creating mirrors. So let me reorder your questions into these two groups. jason andrade wrote: > > hi stephen, > > as a mirror admin, i have to admit, i'm still not clear on what CTM > is and who uses it. since you appear to.. > > o what is it ? CTM is a different way to keep up to date with STABLE or CURRENT or up to date with the ports. What happens is this. Let me illustrate with STABLE. There are a bunch of file with names like this: src-4.0400xEmpty.gz src-4.0402.gz src-4.0403.gz src-4.0404.gz .... Each xEmpty file is a complete snapshot of STABLE. The other files are updates - "deltas" - which modify the previous delta. To keep up to date, first you use ftp download the most recent xEmpty file (they come every 100 deltas), and then the deltas that follow, and use the ctm program to decode these files and create their copy of source. Now you can subscribe to mailing lists like ctm-src-4@freebsd.org. This mailing list will send you new deltas by email as they are created. So once you have got started, you don't need to use ftp (although you may choose to do so). > o why would someone need access to it over the CVSup tree ? If you look in the FreeBSD handbook, it says that CTM is a better method for people with bandwidth problems. However, after asking around, it looks like the another main reason people use it is because they have problems because they operate behind a corperate firewall that does not allow for CVSUP. The advantage of CTM is that it only requires ftp and email. I think that if CTM stopped, then we would lose quite a few corperate users. For some corperate users, it would be impossible for them to get their firewalls to allow CVSUP. The issue is Advocacy. If FreeBSD wants to get inside businesses then a mechanism to get FreeBSD inside businesses is a must. CTM is that mechanism. Without CTM they would not be able to track stable and would not get new releases when they were released into the CVS tree. ------------------------------------------------ Now the mechanics of mirroring. I have to say that I have never managed an anonymous ftp site, and have never been involved in mirroring. If someone could tell me how FreeBSD mirroring works, I would appreciate it. I looked around the FreeBSD website, but I couldn't find the right place that explained how to become a mirror. Someone tells me that ftp-master.freebsd.org should be the main place for mirrors to copy from - is that right? Let me try to answer your specific questions. > o where is the "master" site ? The master site where the CTM's are stored is ns3.saargate.de. > o how much disk space does a full current CTM archive require ? If we keep only one xEmpty for each of the five distribution sets, then it comes to just over half a gigabyte. If we want to have a few months of archive, then maybe 3 or 4 gigabytes. > o how does one mirror it ? rsync ? ns3.saagate.de is anonymous ftp, so I guess that you use one of the ftp mirroring programs. As I understand it, rsync would require giving someone ssh access. I think that this could be arranged if people want to do it this way, but there would be trust issues involved. (But maybe I'm wrong - please correct me of I am.) > o how does one make it available to end users ? (plain old http/ftp?) plain old ftp. > > There is a folder pub/FreeBSD/CTM/x-faulty/ that need not be mirrored. > > Why does this folder exist if it shouldn't be mirrored ? It is now deleted. > > There is another issue. The host computer that creates the CTM delta's > > sends them to ns3.saargate.de, and the copying process can take a long > > time (like 12 hours for files like cvs-cur.7300xEmpty.gz). For this > > reason, there is a big possibility that if you download this file, you > > will only get half of it, because it is still in the process of being > > copied. And you will have taken several hours to do this copy, in the > > process occupying a huge portion of the bandwidth of ns3.saargate.de. I > > guess a few days later when your mirroring software runs again, you will > > see that your copy and ns3.saargate.de's copy are different. Does that > > mean that it will be copied all over again? > > unless locking is implemented, very probably. how large is the file ? what > you've described above doesn't lend itself to mirroring/replication at all > well in its current setup. > The file is about 300 megabytes. I will try to find a way to stop this "half way uploaded" effect from happening. (The way I can think of is to download the file to a different directory, and then use the mv command. Is there a better way?) Tell me what you require, and I will see what we can provide. > -jason > -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message