From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 25 23:47:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA21925 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:47:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA21918 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:47:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Netplex) with ESMTP id PAA05289; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:46:25 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199901260746.PAA05289@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Dillon cc: "Russell L. Carter" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:21:01 PST." <199901260721.XAA14049@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:46:25 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Ok, dumb question, how does this improve on rdist? > : > :"This program is relatively simple in design: It takes the source and > :"creates as near an exact duplicate on the destination as possible. It > :"has the following features: > : > :Russell > > Have you ever tried copying whole trees with rdist? It isn't fun. > rdist can't do half the things cpdup does. I personally would *love* it to go into /bin or /sbin. I have lost count of the number of times that I've had to move trees with tar or cpio (and cpio with -Hnewc to get the 32bit device numbers). If it handles flags etc and does restarts, then even better! A tool like this will be far more useful than a stack of other things in the tree. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message