Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-03-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:34, M. Warner Losh wrote: dump + restore is slow but reliabe. Faster than dd for disks that aren't full :) It also gives you a defrag as well as allowing you to change FS options. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software -

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-03-29 Thread Patrick Tracanelli
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:34, M. Warner Losh wrote: dump + restore is slow but reliabe. Faster than dd for disks that aren't full :) It also gives you a defrag as well as allowing you to change FS options. Yes, pretty much faster for non-full disks, even

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-03-29 Thread Kurt J. Lidl
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:14:19AM -0300, Patrick Tracanelli wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:34, M. Warner Losh wrote: dump + restore is slow but reliabe. Faster than dd for disks that aren't full :) It also gives you a defrag as well as allowing you to

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-03-29 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Patrick Tracanelli wrote this message on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:14 -0300: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:34, M. Warner Losh wrote: dump + restore is slow but reliabe. Faster than dd for disks that aren't full :) It also gives you a defrag as well as allowing you

Call for FreeBSD Status Reports

2006-03-29 Thread Brad Davis
Hi All, It is time for the quarterly Status Reports. As always, reports are encouraged for anything that relates to FreeBSD development, documentation, independent projects, or anything else that might be interesting to the community as a whole. Reports should be one to two paragraphs in length.

Packet drops and queue length upon bandwidth limiting in PF

2006-03-29 Thread Ashish Awasthi
Hi friends, I am a relative newbie, so please don't flame me if my question doesn't make sense. In a network experiment to determine appropriate length of router buffers, I am using pfctl on FreeBSD 5.3 to limit the bandwidth to 100 Mbps on a 1 Gig link and limit the queue to 240 packets, and I