Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:13:03 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question Message-ID: <199901261713.KAA04684@psf.Pinyon.ORG> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:21:01 PST." <199901260721.XAA14049@apollo.backplane.com>
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%: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. (Without trying to appear like I'm defending rdist) I only routinely used it to *simultaneously* update an identically configured *live* cluster of 16 FreeBSD systems from a template machine, and it never failed me... and I believe that Ron Minnich has done similar things with his cluster. This was through a 16 port 100mb Synoptics switch, mebbe that was the difference. But I don't really care one way or another, I'll try it out and see... Russell % % -Matt % Matthew Dillon % <dillon@backplane.com> % To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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