Re: [Cfengine] Re: Purge copy of big directory

[Shawn Ferry]

Quoting Adrian Phillips <a.phillips@met.no> on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:55:07AM 
+0200:
> >>>>> "Shawn" == Shawn Ferry <sferry@sevenspace.com> writes:
> 
>     Shawn> I was wondering if the cfservd CheckSumDatabase would serve
>     Shawn> you well here.
> 
>     Shawn> 
> http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Reference.html#ChecksumDatabase%20in%20cfservd
> 
>     Shawn> I am not doing any large copies so I havn't tried it.
> 
> Checksumming will presumably be slower than a "normal" copy which
> presuambly checks ctime/mtime and size to see if there have been any
> changes (although I haven't checked the code)

agreed, however the original message indicated that checksums
are being used.

The only thing I wonder about is how/when the checksums are
created and subsequently validated(I also have yet to look at the code).


        Rainbow.LOCAL_COPY::                                                    
                                                                             
                $(SV_PURGE_DIR)/usr/local                                       
                                                                             
                        dest=/usr/local                                         
                                                                             
                        type=checksum                                           
                                                                             
                        typecheck=false                                         
                                                                             
                        backup=false                                            
                                                                             
                        purge=true                                              
                                                                             
                        recurse=inf                                             
                                                                             
                        server=$(SERVER)