From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon Jan 22 17:29:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AD537B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:29:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0N1Six25744 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:28:44 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:29:11 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using loopback mounts... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Brian Poole wrote: > Drives are extraordinarily cheap, even for the high quality ones, compared > to skilled labor (which I assume you consider yourself ;). however, the powers that be figure i'm a renewable infinite resource but they are reluctant to chop down more Fibre Trees to get more drives :-) > Hmm, this doesn't make sense. Your traffic costs 100$/gig, but you aren't > affecting your traffic by mounting the ISOs as loopback. All you are > affecting is the usage of disk drives, by saving 650 odd MB per ISO > because you don't need have duplicate files. When you have to do this no.. i loopback mount an ISO, copy the data out to the place it should be and then rsync over the top to fix any oddities. then i unmount the ISO image. per ISO, this saves about 650M of downloaded traffic. for a distro like redhat, that can be 3G. for freebsd, less so. > Perhaps so, it would certainly make it more sensible in my opinion, as I'd > be saving more HD space. However, I don't know how popular DVD images will > be in the near future, even on cable|DSL ISOs still take quite a while to > download, larger images would make this even slower. As well the number of > DVD-Rs in public use is rather low I imagine. i guess i was considering whether more buisnesses would prefer to have a single DVD-R available.. i'd probably organize to snail mail DVD-Rs when i think about it. > And please, don't CC: me ;) I promise, I am on the list. heh.. sorry, just a pine-ism. everyone seems to do it. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message