From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon Jan 22 21:24:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from zwei.soward.net (zwei.soward.net [208.247.194.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5991437B401 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:24:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from uky.edu (soward@[208.247.194.75]) by zwei.soward.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA62314 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:52:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from soward@uky.edu) Message-ID: <3A6D14DE.5090106@uky.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:21:34 -0500 From: John Soward User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010105 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using loopback mounts... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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