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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:46:57 -0400 (AST)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Subject: Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD 
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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, David Greenman wrote:

> this. I know that mirror can be told to follow all symlinks, but this is
> bad when you use symlinks within a filesystem (ports -> current/ports) because
> it will cause the mirror site to needlessly consume massive amounts of disk
> space. 

	You lost me on this one...how does that consume massive amounts of
disk space?  You aren't *using* any more space, only moving the same amount of
space to a different area...no?

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org