Hi Brian: >From experience, it seems that even with the -S option enabled, rsync would still hang at the lastlog file - but don't quote me on that.
Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Brian Elliott Finley > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 17:11 > To: Bernard Li > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] FW: Systemimager issue with lastlog > > Thus spake Bernard Li ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >What we currently do with OSCAR is we truncate it - so perhaps > >SystemImager can do that instead? > > > >Perhaps the original author will have comment regarding it... > > We did not start out using -S with rsync, but I think what > triggered it > was some odd behaviour we were seeing with NetZero pulling images from > their mail servers -- si_getimage would never complete. I believe > that's when we started using -S. > > It may be a bit of a speed hit, but I think we need to keep > that option > in place. While the log file in question is a known, and we could > truncate it, that doesn't ensure that other files (in particular, user > created files) won't also be sparse. Therefore, I don't think that it > is appropriate to have per-file exceptions in this case. > > I prefer to not have per-file exceptions in any case, actually. That > kind of solution will require additional attention in the future if > other similar files make their way into systems, or if filenames > change, etc. Whereas using the -S option will naturally handle future > changes of that type. I believe that using the -S option is a good > example of solving a problem, vs. treating a symptom. > > Cheers, -Brian > > > >Cheers, > > > >Bernard > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Andrea Righi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 14:09 > >> To: Bernard Li > >> Cc: sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > >> Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] FW: Systemimager issue with lastlog > >> > >> Bernard Li wrote: > >> > Actually it seems that we are already using the -S option, see > >> > etc/autoinstallscript.template. > >> > > >> oops... that's true! :-) it seems that rsync is able to > hanle sparse > >> files, but it's very slow... tar, instead, seems to be faster. > >> > >> Regarding lastlog maybe we could consider to exclude it (also > >> with utmp > >> and wtmp). IMO when you install a new image you don't want > to preserve > >> the old logins informations of the golden-client... > >> > >> -Andrea > >> > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > >that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend > the live webcast > >and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > coding territory! > >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 > >_______________________________________________ > >Sisuite-devel mailing list > >Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel > > -- > Brian Elliott Finley > Mobile: 630.631.6621 > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
