Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:20:01 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: markzero <mark@darklogik.org> Subject: Re: Lowest common denominator for buildworld/kernel Message-ID: <200504122120.02091.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20050413000123.GA69935@logik.ath.cx> References: <20050412223859.GA53533@logik.ath.cx> <200504121637.39291.kstewart@owt.com> <20050413000123.GA69935@logik.ath.cx>
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On Tuesday 12 April 2005 05:01 pm, markzero wrote: > > > ssh was the first thing that sprang to mind but it also raised > > > some further questions, like what exactly to copy. /usr/obj would > > > obviously have to go over but what about all the makefiles > > > required for a 'make installworld' etc? I wondered if I would end > > > up just copying over /usr/src entirely, which seems very > > > innefficient. > > > > > > Hmm, it's certainly something to think about. > > > > What I have done to cover that situation is place /usr/obj and > > /usr/src in their own 1.5GB partitions. Then, when you nfs_mount > > them on the other system, they have the same path as when you did > > the build. > > > > You don't need 3GB to cover the build but HDs are cheap and > > rebuilding a slice is not. I have the kernel config file for each > > of the other systems on the build machine. When you do a > > buildkernel, you can have the build machine build the kernel for > > all of them at one time. > > Veering slightly off topic now but how reliable/secure is NFS these > days? I stopped using it years ago as I got tired of the problems I > used to have with it (probably my own fault). Is there a decent, > lightweight distributed filesystem that's stable on FreeBSD? My main > criteria are: > > 1. Lightweight - small and simple is best. > 2. Cryptographically secure - we are very strict about cleartext > protocols over the network here. > > I have seen Coda in ports but it labels itself as 'experimental' and > I'm not really up for debugging my filesystem... > I don't know about reliable. Secure is a function of how you export your system. You export by the remote system, so, no export, no problem :). I have used it to recover systems. I had a mobo go and when I loaded the HDs, I had a pair switched. It was immediately obvious but some links seemed to go by-by. I brought the recovery system up todate and loaded the kernel and world on the sick system. After the upgrade, I had no more problems. I remounted the ../src and ../obj from the sick machine and went on with business. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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