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Date:      Fri, 04 Apr 1997 10:24:52 +0100
From:      Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hubs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <3344C8E4.C6DC9D8@doc.ic.ac.uk>
References:  <17711.860119647@time.cdrom.com>

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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> We've overflowed our 1st 4Gb partition there and now need to go to a
> 2nd, but that means splitting off some of the bits which were
> traditionally confined to one filesystem, and I'm still not sure what
> the effects on the mirrors is going to be.  If you mirror individual
> collections, like pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7.1-RELEASE/, then you should be OK
> since mirror should follow the symlink.  If you're grabbing all
> of pub/FreeBSD, however, what you're going to see afterwards is a link:
>         2.1.7.1-RELEASE -> ../../.3/FreeBSD/2.1.7.1-RELEASE
> 
> I'm not quite sure what the "best" work-around for this is, but
> I just thought I'd mention it.  Sorry folks, but it had to happen
> sooner or later - the ports and packages are huge! ;-)
> 
> This doesn't effect users who get their bits from ftp.freebsd.org
> directly, of course, only those who mirror it.
> 
>                                         Jordan

Could you, perhaps, mount the new disk inside the FreeBSD area?  That
way any full mirror would still get it all?
--
Lee McLoughlin.                         Phone: +44 171 594 8388
IC-Parc, Imperial College,              Fax:   +44 171 594 8432
South Kensington, London. SW7 2BZ. UK.  Email: L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk



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