From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 02:59:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4160A16A4B3 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D78C43F75 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:59:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9K9wwLq037447; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:58:58 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:58:58 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20031020.035232.08284225.imp@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: <20031020135711.F36677@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <200310200705.JAA06855@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com> <20031020134508.P36677@woozle.rinet.ru> <20031020.035232.08284225.imp@bsdimp.com> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync vs installworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:59:10 -0000 On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: MWL> : MWL> : Rsync doesn't deal with file flags (chflags(2)). Thus my personal MWL> : MWL> : preference for updating machines is making installworld on a file system MWL> : MWL> : exported by the build server. MWL> : MWL> MWL> : MWL> I'm looking for ways to avoid having NFS run on the network in MWL> : MWL> question at all. MWL> : MWL> : netpipe by dds@ then? The first drawback of course is that netpipe opens MWL> : back-connection which isn't good for strict firewalls, but I think this could MWL> : be avoided by inventing something like "passive netpipe" mode... MWL> MWL> I'm not familiar with this. Can you proivde a URL? It has been announced at -hackers@ a couple of months ago, and I successfully used it for remote backups. Now dds@ changed its names, and I suppose I should take a closer look at it again. http://www.spinellis.gr/sw/unix/socketpipe/ Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------