James,
I just came across g4u http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
It is like ghost, but it is filesystem independent.
In a production environment, you upload a disk image to a ftp server.
Then for your target machines you use a g4u boot floppy/CD to boot and install
the image on to the server you are setting up.
You should be able to do many in parallel.
I don't know how fast it is, but since it can do many in parallel maybe it is
not so important.
Greg Freemyer
>> Steve and Eric, Thanks for the quick responses. The reason I ask is,
>> we are developing a "drive mini plant" here in mfg to build
>> customer disks for the McKinley (Linux IA64) systems. We want to
>> try and use as much of the same code/processes that we use in our current
>> drive mini plants for building IRIX drives. One of the main tools used
>> to transfer images to the IRIX disks is xfs_copy. It's great
>> because it FAST! and we can copy multiple targets at the same
>> time. Did I mention that it is FAST! ;)
>> We have a disk build process in place for the McKinley disks, but it
>> uses a dump/restore mechanism. It only allows us to build one disk
>> at a time and it's is very, very slow.
>> Steve, I understand the irix threading primitives limitation.
>> Does that pretty much rule out *any* chance of xfs_copy running
>> on a Linux platform??
>> Thanks again!,
>> Jim
>> Stephen Lord wrote:
>> >On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 11:21, James Rada wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>Hi,
>> >>
>> >>Is xfs_copy available in any release of XFS for Linux.
>> >>preferably IA64??
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >Sorry, it has not been ported - it uses irix threading primitives
>> >which have not been implemented on linux.
>> >
>> >Steve
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5
Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
The Norcross Group
www.NorcrossGroup.com
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