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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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