dolly_plus
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.
- Download package
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Checkout Package
osc -A https://api.opensuse.org checkout home:aginies/dolly_plus && cd $_
- Create Badge
Source Files
Filename | Size | Changed |
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dolly_plus-0.94.tar.bz2 | 0000040424 39.5 KB | |
dolly_plus.cfg | 0000000202 202 Bytes | |
dolly_plus.changes | 0000000159 159 Bytes | |
dolly_plus.spec | 0000002182 2.13 KB |
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