- Name: dolly_plus
- Version: 0.93
- Release: 4mdv2008.0
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- Group: System/Servers
- License: GPL
- Url: http://corvus.kek.jp/~manabe/pcf/dolly/
- Summary: Clone the installation of one machine to many other machines
- Architecture: i586
- Size: 42678
- Distribution: Mandriva Linux
- Vendor: Mandriva
- Packager: Mandriva Team <http://www.mandrivaexpert.com>
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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