| Name : dolly_plus
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| Version : 0.93
| Vendor : Mandriva
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| Release : 4mdv2007.1
| Date : 2007-03-02 10:24:16
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| Group : System/Servers
| Source RPM : dolly_plus-0.93-4mdv2007.1.src.rpm
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| Size : 0.21 MB
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| Packager : Antoine Ginies < aginies_mandriva_com>
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| Summary : Clone the installation of one machine to many other machines
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Description :
In administrating a large scale PC cluster, installation and updating both
of kernel and utility software to whole the system are very troublesome,
especially if the numbers of PC exceeds a hundred. In installation, people
usually make dead copies of a hard disk image in which software systems are
previously installed and then they are distributed among node PCs by CDs or
hard disk themselves.
Though some software do such a process through networks, they commonly have
an performance bottleneck at server where the original image are hold.
A cloning program `dolly\' developed in ETH(Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology) avoids such bottleneck by using a \"ring\" type connection rather
than \'hub\' type connection among one server and many clients.
I have extended its concept with multi-threading and pipeline technique.
It speeds up installation process very much. One-to-ten copying, for example,
finishes in almost same minutes for one-to-one copy.
In addition, time out sensing \'bypass\' mechanism makes the copy process
pretty robust in the case of a client machine trouble.
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RPM found in directory: /vol/rzm6/linux-mandriva/official/2007.1/i586/media/contrib/release |
