rsync vs installworld

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

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]
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