Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:36:30 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Poole <raj@cerias.purdue.edu> To: <hubs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: using loopback mounts... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0101222030230.3377-100000@basm.cerias.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0101231126001.13610-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, jason andrade wrote: > 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. Ahhhh, that makes a bit more sense. Can't say I really looked at it like that. Don't have worries about how much data I am transferring here. It probably indeed does make a bit more sense if you are charged by data transferred. > per ISO, this saves about 650M of downloaded traffic. for a distro like > redhat, that can be 3G. for freebsd, less so. nod.. I was reading the way he meant to use loopback as eliminating files being stored twice, not to save data transfer. > heh.. sorry, just a pine-ism. everyone seems to do it. If everyone was jumping off a bridge.. ;) It is just rather annoying to get dupes (don't have a dupe filter in my procmail atm ;/). -b To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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