From owner-freebsd-hubs Sat Jan 23 20:20:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06483 for freebsd-hubs-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:20:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06477 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:20:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA06342; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:20:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA16582; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:20:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:20:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199901240420.UAA16582@vashon.polstra.com> To: jason@dstc.edu.au Subject: Re: new dist area ? Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.hubs In-Reply-To: <199901240352.NAA22103@piglet.dstc.edu.au> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <199901240352.NAA22103@piglet.dstc.edu.au>, jason andrade wrote: > > > FreeBSD-current -> branches/-current > > personally i think it's a mistake to have a directory name like > -current, but i'm not a maintainer.. I'd have to agree with you about that. > i'm getting a little frustated at changes with no warnings. am i not > on a list somewhere where perhaps someone is sending out all the > changes that are occuring ? It was announced on the FreeBSD-hubs list. Didn't you see it? > i'm using a combination of `mirror' (fmirror doesn't compile yet on > solaris 2.6.. looking into it. sigh) and CVSup and one or both would > appear to be broken currently by structural changes. > > are hard links used extensively in the archive ? another case for > either using rsyncd which allows your downstream mirrors to save > on disk by mirroring hardlinks, or for running nicolai langfeldt's > (sp?) md5 checksum hard linking space saver. CVSup preserves hard links. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message