Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:33:29 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Peter Steele" <psteele@webmail.maxiscale.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this a gmirror bug? Message-ID: <20090528183329.dc850cfb.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA4338EE@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> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905281102210.58390@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA4338EE@owa.webmail.maxiscale.com>
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On Thu, 28 May 2009 06:12:25 -0700, "Peter Steele" <psteele@webmail.maxiscale.com> wrote: > >good but seems quite overcomplex expecially this pkg_add. > > > >why just not to compress whole filesystem(s) by tar+gzip? > > ? > > I think we must be talking about something different. In any event, what > we have works quite well and I'm not about to change the process at this > point... I think he's refering to dumping the partitions of an already installed "master system" into files, and then restoring them into the partitions of the "other systems" as intended. This would surely be easier than to pkg_add the software needed on the "other systems"... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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