Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:57:11 -0800 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Tim Bishop <tim-lists@bishnet.net> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ls-lR.gz on ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030204155711.GB20600@procyon.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <20030204150900.GQ1987@myrtle.ukc.ac.uk> References: <20030204150900.GQ1987@myrtle.ukc.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:09:00PM +0000, Tim Bishop wrote: > We run ftp2.uk.freebsd.org and we're currently mirroring from > ftp.freebsd.org. We've recently noticed a problem with the ls-lR.gz > file on ftp.freebsd.org - it doesn't seem to accurately reflect the > tree found on the server. This is causing problems for our mirroring > software which takes the ls-lR.gz file as the definitive list of files > available and pulls them from one (or more) servers. > > A specific example is the directory /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current. On > ftp.freebsd.org this only contains a single tar file, but in the ls-lR > file there's a whole tree of files. > > My guess is that the ls-lR.gz file is generate on ftp-master, and > ftp.freebsd.org isn't quite in sync with it? Don't mirror from ftp.freebsd.org. That server should only handle clients. Use ftp.uk at least, if not ftp-master. In any case, this most likely means the ftp.freebsd.org mirror is probably not mirroring the source trees directly, but rather locally and then tarring up the result to reduce directory I/O. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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