Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 11:41:19 +0100 From: Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk> To: dg@root.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD Message-ID: <3344DACF.26FB5C33@doc.ic.ac.uk> References: <199704040950.BAA10745@root.com>
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David Greenman wrote: > > >> Could you, perhaps, mount the new disk inside the FreeBSD area? That > >> way any full mirror would still get it all? > > > >Wurgh, mount spaghetti! :-( > > > >I don't think that David would go for it, to be perfectly honest. > >Isn't it easier just to split the mirror? > > Right - David wouldn't go for it. Bah! OK plan2: Meta-disk the area, personally I really like Veritas on my Solaris boxes, to make one *BIG* disk. Here on SunSITE.doc.ic.ac.uk we use Veritas to create a single 180 Gigabyte disk out of 40, or so, disks. This isn't a frivolous suggestion. I've been running SunSITE for ages and I grew to *really* hate shuffling areas between disks to balance the space. If you decide against it I have some patches for wu-ftpd that gets pwd to report where you chdir'd to not where you physically are. So if FreeBSD/fred/joe is a symlink to ../../../.01/joe then cd FreeBSD/fred/joe pwd -> FreeBSD/fred/joe This doesn't help with mirroring at all but can help avoid confusing users. Lee -- Lee McLoughlin. Phone: +44 171 594 8388 IC-Parc, Imperial College, Fax: +44 171 594 8432 South Kensington, London. SW7 2BZ. UK. Email: L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk
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