cleanup/questions on some minor directories

[jason andrade]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Valentin Nechayev wrote:

> > is it recommended for mirrors to carry this ? was there another
> > snapshots server in the past that held this stuff ?
>
> AFAIU snapshots are distributed from another servers.

which other servers ? snapshots.freebsd.org doesn't seem to exist
in DNS.  i'm assuming that at the moment a snapshot is put onto
the master if it's perceived that there's a lot of demand for
it - which means it will likely propagate to a bunch of mirrors
who aren't excluding snapshots..

> > /pub/FreeBSD/development/FreeBSD-CVS/ - is this an unpacked
> > cvs tree ? i've never quite worked it out.. and whether it
> > ties into branches/ or not
>
> Among with snapshots, I think it is reasonable placeholder for directories
> which are traditionally placed on some mirrors.

i've found that a number of mirror sites will simply point at a top level of
freebsd and simply pull all the content down.  they may then exclude some
architectures based on disk space.  FreeBSD-CVS (and the branches trees)
are relatively small disk wise so they aren't excluded.  however they have
a bazillion small files which means using rsync on this (yes, i realise
cvsup is recommended instead but not all can use it) chews a chunk of
memory (on server and client) and also time.

so it's fine by me if a mirror site is using /pub/FreeBSD/development/FreeBSD-CVS/
as their placeholder for their cvsup repository but is it required that
the *master* sites also provide/hold this data in that location ?

regards,

-jason