From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Apr 3 18:27:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA07960 for hubs-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 18:27:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-32.netcom.ca [207.181.94.96]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA07951 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 18:27:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id WAA24069; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:27:20 -0400 (AST) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:27:20 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <17711.860119647@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hubs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > We've overflowed our 1st 4Gb partition there and now need to go to a > 2nd, but that means splitting off some of the bits which were > traditionally confined to one filesystem, and I'm still not sure what > the effects on the mirrors is going to be. If you mirror individual > collections, like pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7.1-RELEASE/, then you should be OK > since mirror should follow the symlink. If you're grabbing all > of pub/FreeBSD, however, what you're going to see afterwards is a link: > 2.1.7.1-RELEASE -> ../../.3/FreeBSD/2.1.7.1-RELEASE > > I'm not quite sure what the "best" work-around for this is, but > I just thought I'd mention it. Sorry folks, but it had to happen > sooner or later - the ports and packages are huge! ;-) > How about providing a listing of symlinks that can be setup in the mirror files individually? My familiarity with mirror isn't that great, but I believe that the first thing that would happen would be when you do the initial mirror, it would try to rm the subdirectories that are the result of the symlinks, but I also believe there are various 'exclude' directives that could be used for that... The only thing that the mirrors would require would be a listing of those subdirectories that are symlink'd so that appropriate mirror 'branches' could be created... Just a thought... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org