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To: Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk>
cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hubs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Things moving around on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Apr 1997 11:41:19 +0100."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 02:50:49 -0800
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>>    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.

   We don't have Veritas available and I'm not willing to use CCD due to
too high a drive failure rate.

>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.

   Sounds pretty evil and in any case, we're not using wu-ftpd. Look, if
people can just deal with this for the short term, we'll eventually move
FreeBSD to a 9GB drive and this will be a non-issue again.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project