From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 26 11:00:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C611065679 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:00:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f195.google.com (mail-px0-f195.google.com [209.85.216.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BBB58FC20 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi33 with SMTP id 33so1261562pxi.14 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:00:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=tcjn0CQ3L1lBwfUrO0QvRGI0gEwLTtFranPQjak3Q3Y=; b=pZVJ4x2CRdWbZ3H8Kf4jC4GWZE+LyFmieygrx1yI0R0LFXUzqXoLJyBxYvdNwgVMOC AE0yYXjbCycyTfC/PikwZMKMGBI0w18vKGMRBap6H11GgZ6d1dB+TpOdqXnyuFpwgyRv /M2nT+cr13WJ/SdQHC6wgo41t8SxtzJNhhc+I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KxuPWNVrAILPpwrTWytvhuVq9m3pNJ3KzGJ5dz/ugE4mZRBEWmY07gKNwVJoSJkxE/ YDCicpSkyl5kg04bIBoI51h6bHvzDXodJSfyp463hVCSF19IITkkNLt81+A6f8/rJU/W z5tUBvk/KIRihup6VZ2mtl8Ey69I8cNtOmQeE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.247.33 with SMTP id u33mr110431wfh.219.1267182008062; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:00:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <7d6fde3d1002252116k55a8e350s5dcc0846cba07785@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:00:08 -0800 Message-ID: <7d6fde3d1002260300v36c420d4r79a18efe02c0d8ab@mail.gmail.com> From: Garrett Cooper To: Ryan Stone Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: ddb and dump devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:00:16 -0000 On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Ryan Stone wrote: > I think a better idea would be to dump over the network to another > server. =A0We do that at $(WORK) for diskless machines and it's quite > effective. =A0Currently what we have is very rough and only implemented > on 6.1, but if I get some time this weekend I'll try to clean it up > and provide a patch against HEAD. Network dumping is definitely desired and should perhaps be the primary focus, but there are situations I could see where networking isn't possible for infrastructure or policy reasons. How does your group configure the system to dump to network shares (I presume nfs)? Thanks! -Garrett