Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 09:57:37 -0400 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> To: Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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: <20010922095737.V4205@buffoon.automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <20010921154456.C29490@isnic.is> References: <3BA9EEED.B7F0A194@mitre.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10109202158410.14211-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <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> <20010921154456.C29490@isnic.is>
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:44:56PM +0000, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote: > > 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. Surely most mirror scripts pull down new content to a temporary file with no general read privs, then atomically mv that temporary file to the name of the updated file? Similarly on the master ftp server. I see no locking issues, or need to disconnect anybody. The only issue is that some people will have versions of the ISO without tools. Producing a new "with-tools" ISO sounds like a needless waste of mirror operators' disk :) Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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