Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:27:22 -0500 From: Sean Bryant <sean@cyberwang.net> To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-stable@mawer.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dominic Marks <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> Subject: Re: dd as an imaging solution. Message-ID: <45C8742A.8000605@cyberwang.net> In-Reply-To: <45C81A5B.1010608@mawer.org> References: <45C52C3E.8040204@elgia.com> <20070205101806.b45f4118.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> <45C7EC5F.2030108@cyberwang.net> <45C81A5B.1010608@mawer.org>
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Antony Mawer wrote: > On 6/02/2007 1:47 PM, Sean Bryant wrote: >> Dominic Marks wrote: >>> Check out G4U (NetBSD based) >> >> The only problem I can see here is that multiple parallel reads will >> have serious performance impacts, thus greatly increasing the cloning >> of the disk. >> >> The solution with dd, tee and netcat would just daisy chain the copy >> across the network which would be way faster. > > Now all you need is G4U to operate in a multicast manner like Symantec > Ghost Corporate Edition, and your transfer speed wouldn't reduce with > each additional client (eg. 100mbps for 1 client, 50mbps each for 2 > clients, 33.3mbps each for 3 clients, ...) > > --Antony Exactly. That's what I was really going for. Except Freesbie 2.0 sorta doesn't let me write to the character device over the network .
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