On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:25:02AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > zsync already reaches inside a gzip file and effectively rsyncs the > uncompressed version. No reason it couldn't be made a bit smarter so > as to look inside the components of a .deb ar file. This being a > fairly interesting use case for zsync, I expect it's already being > considered, if not implemented. at least considered ;) seriously, if zsync stabilizes (which will take a while) it would provide us with a way (together with some other stuff) to sync our mirrors while taking only a fraction of the bandwidth currently needed. this can't be bad. but it would mean we have to store .zsync files besides the debs (+ ~1% size) and talk the mirror admins into running an update script that is way more complex than two-phase rsync and needs a wee bit more processing power on their side. anyway, it's too early to speculate about stuff like that... cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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