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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:44:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
To:        "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'cpdup' program, and question 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.990126124252.3738I-100000@terra>
In-Reply-To: <199901261713.KAA04684@psf.Pinyon.ORG>

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> %    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.

I'm not defending rdist either but ... I use it to routinely keep 128 
machines up-to-date. On FreeBSD I can run 32 at a time. It only takes a 
few minutes. cpdup will have to equal that performance. But I'll look at 
cpdup too. 

Ron

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