Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 02:50:49 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk> 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: <199704041050.CAA11084@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Apr 1997 11:41:19 %2B0100." <3344DACF.26FB5C33@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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>> Right - David wouldn't go for it. > >Bah! > >OK plan2: Meta-disk the area, personally I really like Veritas on my >Solaris boxes, to make one *BIG* disk. Here on SunSITE.doc.ic.ac.uk we >use Veritas to create a single 180 Gigabyte disk out of 40, or so, >disks. > >This isn't a frivolous suggestion. I've been running SunSITE for ages >and I grew to *really* hate shuffling areas between disks to balance the >space. We don't have Veritas available and I'm not willing to use CCD due to too high a drive failure rate. >If you decide against it I have some patches for wu-ftpd that gets pwd >to report where you chdir'd to not where you physically are. So if >FreeBSD/fred/joe is a symlink to ../../../.01/joe then > cd FreeBSD/fred/joe > pwd -> FreeBSD/fred/joe > >This doesn't help with mirroring at all but can help avoid confusing >users. Sounds pretty evil and in any case, we're not using wu-ftpd. Look, if people can just deal with this for the short term, we'll eventually move FreeBSD to a 9GB drive and this will be a non-issue again. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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