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Date:      Sat, 08 Jun 2002 23:16:00 +0900
From:      Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
To:        hubs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ftp-master.FreeBSD.org is not friendly to the mirror servers
Message-ID:  <20020608231600J.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>

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I don't know who is the maintainer of ftp-master.FreeBSD.org, and I
don't know where is the contact address of the host, here it is:

The packages/ directory operation at ftp-master.FreeBSD.org is NOT
mirror-servers friendly.  Here is why.

Several days ago, ports/alpha/packages-4-stable is a DIRECTORY, which
contains latest 4-stable packages, and it should be.  However, today's
ports/alpha/packages-4-stable is a SYMLINK, which goes to
packages-4.6-release.

It is a very easy task on ftp-master.FreeBSD.org, because it can be
done with:
	rm packages-4.6-release
	mv packages-4-stable packages-4.6-release
	ln -s packages-4.6-release packages-4-stable

However, from the mirror server's point of view, this changes makes
"removing packages-4-stable directory entirely" and "create
packages-4.6-release directory and its contents".  Moreover, if you
mount packages-4.6-release/ directory via NFS, NFS client confuses
and gets "stall NFS file handle".  The correct instruction should be:
	rm packages-4.6-release
	cp -pr packages-4.6-release packages-4-stable
It is obvious; create a directory for 4.6-RELEASE and put the contents.	

Some of you says "that eats disk space much"; but you forget that if
packages-4-stable becomes a directory back again, your disk usage will
be increased.  There is no difference except the timing.

ftp-master.FreeBSD.org maintainer, would you please don't remove
packages-4-stable directory?

Thanks in advance,
-- -
Makoto `MAR' Matsushita

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