Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:21:34 -0500 From: John Soward <soward@uky.edu> To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using loopback mounts... Message-ID: <3A6D14DE.5090106@uky.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0101231126001.13610-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
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jason andrade wrote: > 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 :-) > Seems like using Fibre-connect drives for an FTP mirror isn't a good choice. Recent IDE drives are extremely economical, quite fast and fairly reliable, and cheap RAID cards (like the 3ware) abound. $3K US should build you a mirror big enough for FreeBSD and then some, $4K and it's redundant. >> Hmm, this doesn't make sense. Your traffic costs 100$/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. > > This does make sense if your traffic costs $100/gig, but here in the US that's simply not the case! Sounds like there are some satelite data delivery business opportunities down under. I do expect DVD delivery to arrive by the end of the year, and it may be worth the trouble then, it's certainly a neat idea. -- John Soward Lead Systems Programmer, Technical Services, University of Kentucky p: 859.257.2900x298 e:soward@uky.edu w: http://neworder.cc.uky.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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