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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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