December 2006 Archives

I'm maintainer of fuse perl binding for some time now. One of things that I'm somewhat proud is somewhat limited but working support for FreeBSD. Since I use FreeBSD only to test fuse bindings for perl, I tend to forget all little thigs which are different on it. So, here is a little reminder for my poor brain -- how to get my FreeBSD box up-to-date:

root@freebsd:/root# cvsup -L 2 /root/ports-supfile
root@freebsd:/# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-libs
root@freebsd:/usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-libs# make install
root@freebsd:/usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-libs# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-kmod/
root@freebsd:/usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-kmod# make install

Currently bindings still compile against perl 5.8.7, and I'm compiling perl 5.8.8 with threading to give it a try. I think that I will really need to fix tests to run on FreeBSD first (help from BSD users would be greatly appreciated).

Over the years, I have changed 2.5" hard-drives in laptop more often than I want to remember. Last one lasted only year and a half, which is noticably less than previous ones which managed to survive for two and half years at least.

But, this time, I didn't manage to find two 2.5" HD adapters for desktop PC, so I opted to use netcat and tar like this:

new$ nc -w 5 -l -p 8888 | tar xvfSp -
old$ tar cfvSp - / | nc new 8888

Can you see the touble here? (No, I'm not thinking about redundant S in one of tars -- hack, I'm not even sure it's redundant, man page didn't tell me anything useful).

If you couldn't guess, I didn't have completly same /etc/group and /etc/passwd on both machines. Life sucks. I should have used --numeric-owner for tar and all would be well, thus here is a blog post...

Update: if you are using framebuffer, leaving v flag will slow down transfer considerably because screen scrolling is slow. So, faster and correct alternative is:

new$ nc -w 5 -l -p 8888 | tar --numeric-owner -xSpf -
old$ tar --numeric-owner -cSpf - / | nc new 8888