Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:29:11 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using loopback mounts... Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0101231126001.13610-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0101222008120.3377-100000@basm.cerias.purdue.edu>
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Brian Poole wrote: > Drives are extraordinarily cheap, even for the high quality ones, compared > to skilled labor (which I assume you consider yourself ;). however, the powers that be figure i'm a renewable infinite resource but they are reluctant to chop down more Fibre Trees to get more drives :-) > Hmm, this doesn't make sense. Your traffic costs 100$/gig, but you aren't > affecting your traffic by mounting the ISOs as loopback. All you are > affecting is the usage of disk drives, by saving 650 odd MB per ISO > because you don't need have duplicate files. When you have to do this no.. i loopback mount an ISO, copy the data out to the place it should be and then rsync over the top to fix any oddities. then i unmount the ISO image. per ISO, this saves about 650M of downloaded traffic. for a distro like redhat, that can be 3G. for freebsd, less so. > Perhaps so, it would certainly make it more sensible in my opinion, as I'd > be saving more HD space. However, I don't know how popular DVD images will > be in the near future, even on cable|DSL ISOs still take quite a while to > download, larger images would make this even slower. As well the number of > DVD-Rs in public use is rather low I imagine. i guess i was considering whether more buisnesses would prefer to have a single DVD-R available.. i'd probably organize to snail mail DVD-Rs when i think about it. > And please, don't CC: me ;) I promise, I am on the list. heh.. sorry, just a pine-ism. everyone seems to do it. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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