From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2009-06-06 14:04:01
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Quoting Serge Leschinsky <fi...@in...>: > Hello, > > Dominic Raferd wrote: > >> Thinking of newbies, could a new install of DL attempt to autoconfigure >> eth0 i.e. identify and load an appropriate ethernet module and try to >> pick up IP from an external DHCP server? > Actually, udev loads all necessary modules during startup. The field > "module" is > optional for the simplest cases and allows to define any non-standard options > for modules (bonding for example). > So, if we put a prepared ifcfg script for eth0 with DHCP configured then the > network will start automatically. > > The question is - do we really need this feature? > >> >> I would also like to request that rdiff-backup >> (http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/non-gnu/rdiff-backup/) be added >> to the next release? I see you have added Bacula, so it makes sense >> (IMO) to add another (very powerful) backup tool. 'rdiff-backup backs up >> one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory >> ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are >> stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can >> still recover files lost some time ago.' Apart from rdiff-backup itself >> the only other missing requirement in DL is librsync v0.9.7. >> Unfortunately there is a known bug in librsync v0.9.7 affecting large >> files for which a patch is available at >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355178. > > It's really difficult to make a decision about the package if we know nothing > about it. Due to DL nature it's impossible to just create a rpm/deb and allow > users to choose to install it or not. DL grows and it may be a problem. > I'd leave this question for Heiko - if I find out this feature request in BT > assigned to me ;-) I'll know that it's necessary to do :-) What's the big benefit on using this instead of rsync? -- Regards Heiko Zuerker http://www.devil-linux.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. |