On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:29:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As it seems that you are the maintainer of the dump packet I have a question:
>
> Why do you still use the outdated BSD rmt server that suffers from Linux
> kernel incompatibilities and makes it hard ot impossible to do remote dumps
> between different architectures?
I agree with you that the rmt provided with star is better than
the one shipped with dump.
However, the dump 'rmt' is not so bad, I have a pretty good success
with it and most of the dump users too. But yes, it will not work
in some cases.
There are also licence incompatibilities. Dump is BSD licenced
(not that I want or like it, but this is a fact). IIRC, star is
GPL, meaning that there is no way I could integrate the _client_
code into dump.
As for the rmt server, most of the people use the default distribution
shipped rmt. Which (on linux) is dump's rmt for RedHat, cpio's rmt
for Debian (I think) etc. Nothing prevents you from pushing your
rmt server into those distribs. :-)
> The star package:
>
> ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/alpha/
>
> has a much better rmt server and client code which hides platform dependencies
> and gives many new features as:
>
> - large file support
mine does too.
> - a security concept that is definable in /etc/default/rmt
well, if I want security, I use ssh...
> - Support for Sun's additions to abstract from rmt status
> platform incompatibilities
> - Support for Sun and Schily additions that abstract from
> rmt ioctl platform incompatibilities
with a recent patch, mine should work too with Sun's additions.
> - Support for GNU additions to abstract from open mode
> flag platform incompatibilities
Stelian.
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