[NMLUG] Further advamtage of GHOST

[sbrowne at ix.netcom.com (Steve Browne)]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:26:26 -0700, you wrote:

>James Hamilton wrote:
>
>>>What else are you gonna use if you need to clone a Mac OS X 10.3 file or
>>>partition?   Ghost sure can't do it.  Oh, by the way, Ghost can't even
>>>do reiserfs.
>> 
>> Tar damn it tar! ;-)  There's unix in them there hills...
>
>So, if someone (not me) was slick enough to create a ncurses or/and 
>graphical UI to do fdisk and tar, you then would have a GhC (ghost 
>clone) that far outpaced Ghost (GhC+), and would not only allow you to 
>move your files from one device to another (device independence), and 
>resize partitions, but ALSO let you migrate between file systems.... 
>theoretically.
>
>Now, you'd have to leave all your journals behind, but you're likely 
>going to have to do that in the best-case scenario anyway.  Are there 
>other implications in "ghosting" journaled file systems that I'm not 
>aware of?
>
>Oh, oh, and instead of calling it GhC+, we could call it "Advamtage!"
>
>Whoot!
>
>Okay, what did I miss?  I know I missed something (other than who's 
>going to build this bad boy).

My transfer speed tests comparing Ghost and <dd>, ATA100, single CPU,
indicate equivalent results limited by the other hardware in the
system, not the software.

Steve
Stephen B. Browne
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