From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon Jan 22 17: 6:40 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 6E57C37B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:06:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0N15kx23632; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:05:46 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:06:14 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Brian Poole Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using loopback mounts... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Brian Poole wrote: > I don't know about others, but personally the time wasted fooling with > loopback mounts out weighs the cost of a few GBs of storage. I don't have > the time to waste when drives are as cheap as they are. You would also > have to do special configuration of your mirror scripts, blah blah. Much, > much easier to just sic your scripts on the entire directory and let it > maintain itself. g'day brian, in the freebsd case, this is particularly relevant because the ISO images don't directly reflect the layout of the ftp archive. i disagree with the `drives as cheap' bit, only because our Dell fibrechannel arrays are definitely not as cheap as i'd like. but you get what you pay for.. as a mirror librarian (ook!) with a bunch of different archives, i can say that most distros now have multiple cdrom images. it's becoming increasingly hard to use loopback mounts on a permanent basis. for what it's worth, i try and use loopbacks to `seed' the archive releases we use, where possible (when your traffic costs $100 per gig, incoming, if it takes me 30 minutes of my time to re-use a loopback.. well, i certainly don't get paid $200/hour :-) i suspect loopback stuff will be used a lot more once DVD-R images start to be released.. to date, i only know of SuSE Linux offering this. i was seriously thinking about a DVD writer and offering Freebsd on DVD-R.. but i haven't had the time lately. any comments from other people on this.. is FreeBSD already offered on DVD ? regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message