Pump you up...

Just curious...

What is the "Pumping Partion" thing all about when I'm upgrading my Empeg kernel?

I'm not a Linux expert-- is this one of those Linux things? As in, "It's a Linux thing, you wouldn't understand."



-- Tony Fabris -- Empeg #144 --
Caution: Do not look into laser with remaining good eye.

No, it's not a linux thing :)

The upgrader sends a gzipped partition image to the player, which "pumps" the hard drive (the pump program in the empeg's ramdisk decompresses this directly onto the partition).

I got the term "pump" from the old Acorn R140 unix workstation (ARM2 based, 1988) where in the case of a bad system failure (eg: a clueless unix newbie (blush!) got the arguments wrong on a piped tar and wiped out most of his filesystem), the service engineer just hooked up a good workstation, booted the dead one from a magic floppy, and the entire hard disk image was pumped over the ethernet to the dead one.

Hugo

Thanks for the explanation, Hugo. Don't be embarassed. I've FDISK'ed the wrong partition before, which I guess is the DOS equivalent of your arguments slip-up.

Hey, tell your programmers good job on the 9a stuff (I assume they'll release it tomorrow since the interim build they sent me worked great).



-- Tony Fabris -- Empeg #144 --
Caution: Do not look into laser with remaining good eye.

nothing to do with the "pumping lemma"? i just finished a compilers class and i'm looking for some possible real world use for this info. to date, i have found none.

oh, i wish i wish i had an empeg...