From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 21 8:45: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from amun.isnic.is (amun.isnic.is [193.4.58.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B988437B40E; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from oli@localhost) by amun.isnic.is (8.11.6/8.11.6/isnic) id f8LFivi34440; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:44:57 GMT (envelope-from oli) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:44:56 +0000 From: Olafur Osvaldsson To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , Jordan Hubbard , kris@obsecurity.org, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, jandrese@mitre.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO? Message-ID: <20010921154456.C29490@isnic.is> References: <3BA9EEED.B7F0A194@mitre.org> <20010920223730.A82191@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010920234553S.jkh@freebsd.org> <200109211448.f8LEmfd54113@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> <20010921095056.M61456@elvis.mu.org> <200109211518.f8LFITg54534@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> <20010921103916.A97903@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010921103916.A97903@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:39:16AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Wouldn't it be trivial to just mount the ISO, tar copy it, add the > files then rerun mkisofs? > This would result in all mirrors re-downloading the image wich is not such a big deal except now there are a minimum of 5 users downloading the image at any given time wich locks the file so it won't get updated unless the admin disconnects the users and then the user can't resume the download and can't start again untill the mirror site has finished downloading the image from the master wich in some cases takes hours. This will probably result in a lot more annoyed users than the first problem. Oli -- Olafur Osvaldsson Systems Administrator Internet Iceland inc. Tel: +354 525-5291 Email: oli@isnic.is To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message