Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 00:04:56 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970404000422.10298C-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199704040357.TAA08681@root.com>
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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, David Greenman wrote:
> >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?
>
> Mirror will follow the symlink and individually create the directory
> hierarchies that it points to. Thus "ports -> current/ports" and "new_ports
> -> current/ports" will create *three* copies of "ports" and no symlinks
> will be created. ...but you have to tell it to do this (I forget the option).
Okay, now I understand what you are referring too...thanks for the
explanation :)
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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