Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

[Tyler MacDonald <tyler@yi.org>]

Brian Eaton <eaton.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/rsync-and-debian.html
> 
> Has anyone ever done some log file analysis to figure out how much
> bandwidth would be saved by transferring package deltas instead of
> entire new packages?

	Slightly off-topic, but I never realised until I read that article,
how similar rsync and bittorrent are! The whole "storing checksum files on
an HTTP server" sounds exactly like what BitTorrent is already doing. :-)

	Cheers,
		Tyler