From owner-freebsd-hubs Fri Apr 4 03:15:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA02077 for hubs-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 03:15:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from icparc-pc-zl.doc.ic.ac.uk (icparc-pc-zl.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.24.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA02072 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 03:15:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from triumph.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.24.1] by icparc-pc-zl.doc.ic.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.61 #1) id 0wD6xG-0000f8-00; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 12:14:51 +0100 Message-ID: <3344E2BC.5DC51F25@doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 12:15:08 +0100 From: Lee McLoughlin Organization: IC-Parc, Imperial College, University of London. U.K. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com CC: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD References: <199704041050.CAA11084@root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hubs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman wrote: > > We don't have Veritas available and I'm not willing to use CCD due to > too high a drive failure rate. CCD? > >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. I don't think its evil, several shells now do it (eg: bash). > 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. Sorry if you felt I was trying to get at you, or something. Its just from past experience I've found these things help. -- 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