From owner-freebsd-hubs Sun Sep 14 13:54:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA29968 for hubs-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 13:54:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thumper.cns.vt.edu (thumper.cns.vt.edu [128.173.12.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA29957 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 13:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (ceharris@localhost) by thumper.cns.vt.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA08931 for freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 16:53:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Carl Harris Message-Id: <199709142053.QAA08931@thumper.cns.vt.edu> Subject: ftp4.freebsd.org down To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 16:53:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ftp4.freebsd.org (a.k.a. ftp.cslab.vt.edu) is down while I try to put the pieces back together -- it suffered a major disk crash. Hopefully, it won't be down for more than a few days. In attempting to rebuild our mirrors of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and others I have once again come to the conclusion that 'mirror', the Perl script, seems wholly unsuited to the task of maintaining *large* mirrors. I recall seeing a post to this list (or perhaps freebsd-announce) about a new official mirror that mentioned a mirroring software package. However, I can't seem to find that post anywhere. Can someone bounce a copy of that post to me? Or better yet, offer suggestions of better software to take care of this task -- I find it hard to believe that ftp mirrors the world over are getting by with 'mirror'. -- Carl Harris Communication Systems Lead Engineer CNS Research and Development, Virginia Tech ceharris@vt.edu