rsync vs installworld

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

MWL> In message: <200310200705.JAA06855 at galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com>
MWL>             Helge Oldach <helge.oldach at atosorigin.com> writes:
MWL> : Rsync doesn't deal with file flags (chflags(2)). Thus my personal
MWL> : preference for updating machines is making installworld on a file system
MWL> : exported by the build server.
MWL>
MWL> I'm looking for ways to avoid having NFS run on the network in
MWL> question at all.

netpipe by dds@ then? The first drawback of course is that netpipe opens
back-connection which isn't good for strict firewalls, but I think this could
be avoided by inventing something like "passive netpipe" mode...

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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