On Mon, 17 May 2010 10:10:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!:

>On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:21:50 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
>> Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my
>> ftp/pub directory.  And looking in the rsync man page:
>
>Why not set $DISTDIR to the true location of distfiles instead of using
>bind mounts?

Because binding the directory to /home/ftp/pub makes the distfiles
available to the rest of one's network via anonymous ftp.  I do the
same thing here, without the "pub" subdirectory, and exclude /home/ftp/
from my backups.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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