From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 26 09:44:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA05426 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:44:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA05421 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:44:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rminnich@Sarnoff.COM) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA04421; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:44:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:44:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: "Russell L. Carter" cc: Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question In-Reply-To: <199901261713.KAA04684@psf.Pinyon.ORG> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > % 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message