From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Apr 3 20:05:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA12990 for hubs-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:05:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-32.netcom.ca [207.181.94.96]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA12984 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:05:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA24817; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 00:04:56 -0400 (AST) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 00:04:56 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: David Greenman cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199704040357.TAA08681@root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hubs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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