Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:06:14 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: Brian Poole <raj@cerias.purdue.edu> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using loopback mounts... Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0101231101250.13610-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0101221956400.3377-100000@basm.cerias.purdue.edu>
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Brian Poole wrote: > I don't know about others, but personally the time wasted fooling with > loopback mounts out weighs the cost of a few GBs of storage. I don't have > the time to waste when drives are as cheap as they are. You would also > have to do special configuration of your mirror scripts, blah blah. Much, > much easier to just sic your scripts on the entire directory and let it > maintain itself. g'day brian, in the freebsd case, this is particularly relevant because the ISO images don't directly reflect the layout of the ftp archive. i disagree with the `drives as cheap' bit, only because our Dell fibrechannel arrays are definitely not as cheap as i'd like. but you get what you pay for.. as a mirror librarian (ook!) with a bunch of different archives, i can say that most distros now have multiple cdrom images. it's becoming increasingly hard to use loopback mounts on a permanent basis. for what it's worth, i try and use loopbacks to `seed' the archive releases we use, where possible (when your traffic costs $100 per gig, incoming, if it takes me 30 minutes of my time to re-use a loopback.. well, i certainly don't get paid $200/hour :-) i suspect loopback stuff will be used a lot more once DVD-R images start to be released.. to date, i only know of SuSE Linux offering this. i was seriously thinking about a DVD writer and offering Freebsd on DVD-R.. but i haven't had the time lately. any comments from other people on this.. is FreeBSD already offered on DVD ? regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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