From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon May 7 14:52: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4071737B422; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f47Lpqq12510; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:51:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:51:52 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Will Andrews Cc: Jesper Skriver , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master Message-ID: <20010507145152.B12252@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010507125604P.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010507231953.A41580@skriver.dk> <20010507142813.A12106@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010507164104.I3246@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010507164104.I3246@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:41:04PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:41:04PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > I have always kept one usable Alpha -current snapshot on the FTP site. > > current.freebsd.org isn't mirrored, thus anyone wanting to access it has > > to do to that one site. Why mirror ftp.freebsd.org at all then? > > BTW, my experiences for the past several years is that connectivity to > > current.freebsd.org is less than usable quite often. > > Well, I doubt that many people use the snaps at all. So I think having > separate sites for them is an OK idea. An Alph snap is 180MB. Is diskspace *that* tight? I understand getting rid of cruft when cruft is 50% of /pub/FreeBSD, but clearly useful bits have to go too? I did delete the older of the two Alpha snaps. > Perhaps we should keep a small > number of "known working" snaps on the ftp site, I guess. That *IS* what I've been saying (and doing). :-) -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message