Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:10:08 -0000 From: "Tim Bishop" <tim-lists@bishnet.net> To: "Will Andrews" <will@csociety.org> Cc: <freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: ls-lR.gz on ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <PPEFJKMCKBMFJCJBBPJICEKAHAAA.tim-lists@bishnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20030204155711.GB20600@procyon.firepipe.net>
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> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:09:00PM +0000, Tim Bishop wrote: > > We run ftp2.uk.freebsd.org and we're currently mirroring from > > ftp.freebsd.org. We've recently noticed a problem with the ls-lR.gz > > file on ftp.freebsd.org - it doesn't seem to accurately reflect the > > tree found on the server. This is causing problems for our mirroring > > software which takes the ls-lR.gz file as the definitive list of files > > available and pulls them from one (or more) servers. > > > > A specific example is the directory /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current. On > > ftp.freebsd.org this only contains a single tar file, but in the ls-lR > > file there's a whole tree of files. > > > > My guess is that the ls-lR.gz file is generate on ftp-master, and > > ftp.freebsd.org isn't quite in sync with it? > > Don't mirror from ftp.freebsd.org. That server should only > handle clients. Use ftp.uk at least, if not ftp-master. In any > case, this most likely means the ftp.freebsd.org mirror is > probably not mirroring the source trees directly, but rather > locally and then tarring up the result to reduce directory I/O. I didn't set this up originally. I think the original person presumed ftp.freebsd.org was the master. As far as I am aware we do not have access to ftp-master - we'd be happy to use this if we could. As you say, the other option is to mirror from ftp.uk. I'll suggest this to my colleagues. However, the original point was that the site was not in sync with the ls-lR file. I presumed, maybe wrongly, that this was "not normal" which is why I pointed it out. Cheers, Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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