Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 02:29:08 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Rod Taylor <rod@zort.on.ca>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thoughts... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001150228310.46499-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <200001150555.VAA96077@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :Hmm.. My main thoughts for this was the hoarding issue. As the school would
> :like to allow students to 'link up' via laptops and have them synchronized via
> :the same mechanism.
> :
> :Their current solution is to copy a 1.8GB disk image across the network onto
> :the drives and use that as a normal local disk. The copy time takes several
> :minutes. If for some reason 50 people decided to do this at the same time you
> :could see where some network lag would come from.
>
> There are lots of ways of syncing up that do not require sending the
> entire image over the network every time. Syncing is something you could
> do with an NFS mount quite easily, combined with something like cpdup
> (see /usr/ports/sysutils/cpdup).
we use rdist on our network to keep our production servers in sync...we
tend to avoid 'nfs traffic' as much as possible...
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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