Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:03:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Peter Steele <psteele@webmail.maxiscale.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is this a gmirror bug? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905281102210.58390@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA4338E8@owa.webmail.maxiscale.com> References: <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA4338D4@owa.webmail.maxiscale.com><alpine.BSF.2.00.0905262333080.48107@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl><20090526230522.GH49013@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20090527011302.98954329.freebsd@edvax.de> <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA4338DA@owa.webmail.maxiscale.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905271921280.53599@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA4338E6@owa.webmail.maxiscale.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905280006420.55278@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA4338E8@owa.webmail.maxiscale.com>
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>> that do zcat [partition image.gz] >/dev/partition > > We have a two step process. First we run a script that creates the > master image as a tgz. The image is created at an alternate root using > the -C option of pkg_add and the DESTDIR option of the various OS > install scripts. We only run this script when we need to make a change > to the master image. > > We use this image to create bootable USB sticks, and when a system is > booted from one of these sticks there is automatic startup logic that > clones the disk onto the target hard drive of the box (configuring the good but seems quite overcomplex expecially this pkg_add. why just not to compress whole filesystem(s) by tar+gzip?
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