From owner-freebsd-hubs Sat Jun 8 7:16: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (castle.jp.FreeBSD.org [210.226.20.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ABA337B405 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 07:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [::1]) by castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.3) with ESMTP/inet6 id g58EG2W08531 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 23:16:02 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) X-User-Agent: Mew/1.94.2 XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo) X-FaceAnim: (-O_O-)(O_O- )(_O- )(O- )(- -)( -O)( -O_)( -O_O)(-O_O-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 37 From: Makoto Matsushita To: hubs@FreeBSD.org Subject: ftp-master.FreeBSD.org is not friendly to the mirror servers Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 23:16:00 +0900 Message-Id: <20020608231600J.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I don't know who is the maintainer of ftp-master.FreeBSD.org, and I don't know where is the contact address of the host, here it is: The packages/ directory operation at ftp-master.FreeBSD.org is NOT mirror-servers friendly. Here is why. Several days ago, ports/alpha/packages-4-stable is a DIRECTORY, which contains latest 4-stable packages, and it should be. However, today's ports/alpha/packages-4-stable is a SYMLINK, which goes to packages-4.6-release. It is a very easy task on ftp-master.FreeBSD.org, because it can be done with: rm packages-4.6-release mv packages-4-stable packages-4.6-release ln -s packages-4.6-release packages-4-stable However, from the mirror server's point of view, this changes makes "removing packages-4-stable directory entirely" and "create packages-4.6-release directory and its contents". Moreover, if you mount packages-4.6-release/ directory via NFS, NFS client confuses and gets "stall NFS file handle". The correct instruction should be: rm packages-4.6-release cp -pr packages-4.6-release packages-4-stable It is obvious; create a directory for 4.6-RELEASE and put the contents. Some of you says "that eats disk space much"; but you forget that if packages-4-stable becomes a directory back again, your disk usage will be increased. There is no difference except the timing. ftp-master.FreeBSD.org maintainer, would you please don't remove packages-4-stable directory? Thanks in advance, -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message