Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:46:25 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question Message-ID: <199901260746.PAA05289@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:21:01 PST." <199901260721.XAA14049@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Ok, dumb question, how does this improve on rdist? > : > :"This program is relatively simple in design: It takes the source and > :"creates as near an exact duplicate on the destination as possible. It > :"has the following features: > : > :Russell > > Have you ever tried copying whole trees with rdist? It isn't fun. > rdist can't do half the things cpdup does. I personally would *love* it to go into /bin or /sbin. I have lost count of the number of times that I've had to move trees with tar or cpio (and cpio with -Hnewc to get the 32bit device numbers). If it handles flags etc and does restarts, then even better! A tool like this will be far more useful than a stack of other things in the tree. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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