> I'm considering considering writing a Linux client-server application using
> UDP to do a disk-to-disk copy over an Ethernet network. Here's how I
> envision it working:
Why UDP ??
> Of course, there's lots of little details I left out (UDP packets getting
> lost, end-of-file action, screen updates on client and server to track
> progress, etc., etc., etc.). I still have to fsck the failed system and
> change a few files, but this would be *much* quicker than the
> process I have now!
Thats a crazy amount of work. Compile an ftp daemon for your machines
that do not object to get/put of a block device, set the permissions open
on just the disks you need
ftp blah
get /dev/hda /dev/hdc (or whatever)
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