Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:04:11 +1100 From: Antony Mawer <fbsd-stable@mawer.org> To: Sean Bryant <sean@cyberwang.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dominic Marks <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> Subject: Re: dd as an imaging solution. Message-ID: <45C81A5B.1010608@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <45C7EC5F.2030108@cyberwang.net> References: <45C52C3E.8040204@elgia.com> <20070205101806.b45f4118.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> <45C7EC5F.2030108@cyberwang.net>
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On 6/02/2007 1:47 PM, Sean Bryant wrote: > Dominic Marks wrote: >> Check out G4U (NetBSD based) > > The only problem I can see here is that multiple parallel reads will > have serious performance impacts, thus greatly increasing the cloning of > the disk. > > The solution with dd, tee and netcat would just daisy chain the copy > across the network which would be way faster. Now all you need is G4U to operate in a multicast manner like Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition, and your transfer speed wouldn't reduce with each additional client (eg. 100mbps for 1 client, 50mbps each for 2 clients, 33.3mbps each for 3 clients, ...) --Antony
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