From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 21 1:36:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from slarti.muc.de (slarti.muc.de [193.149.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A2B137B632 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:36:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhs@jhs.muc.de) Received: (qmail 29002 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2000 09:41:38 -0000 Received: from jhs.muc.de (193.149.49.84) by slarti.muc.de with SMTP; 21 Mar 2000 09:41:38 -0000 Received: from park.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhs.muc.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA37704; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:32:01 GMT (envelope-from jhs@park.jhs.no_domain) Message-Id: <200003202232.WAA37704@jhs.muc.de> To: Dominik Brettnacher Cc: "danny@FreeBSD.ORG" , jabley@patho.gen.nz, dom@happygiraffe.net, brian@awfulhak.org, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, lee@uk.freebsd.org, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ispsetup (was: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons) From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd - Unix & Internet consultancy X-Web: http://www.jhs.muc.de http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:32:23 +0100." Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:32:01 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Dominik Brettnacher wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, danny@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > > > Whoa. That's going to lead to a large, deep directory tree, with zillions > > of little files, one per ISP. > > What about we consider a file per country, with sections for each ISP. > > Why do you want to use large flat files instead of a file system? The > Ports Collection also works fine with lots of little files. I think little > files are easier to maintain. A number of ports people a few months back were regretting all those little files, quite a number would have liked to see them amalgamated into something that uses less files, trouble is it's hard to change at this stage: 3200 ports, & things like pib know the format too. CVS checkout of ports/ takes forever compared with src/, & src/ is a lot bigger (in du, not in inodes). Not yet being trapped to use tons of files to describe ISPs, seems sensible to consider some way of not using too many files :-) BTW whoever decides the format, don't forget countries sometimes merge (EG E & W Germany), & sometimes split (EG [name your favourite independence movement]), as well as companies etc. Julian - Julian Stacey http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message