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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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