Re: Accessibility of official jigdo files for Sarge
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:22:45PM +0200, Attila Nagy wrote:
> If we wouldn't talk about Linux I would suggest forget rsync. It's very
> bad in handling many thousands of files, both on the client and the
> server side.
> We switched to cvsup where we could (for example FreeBSD mirror). It's a
> lot more efficient. A full FreeBSD mirror can be done in about 4 MBs of
> memory (about 600-800,000 files as far as I can remember). And also it
> is much faster in the start of the process.
For Debian mirrors, we have practically no use in features like compression,
RCS, deltas and whatever else. To eliminate the initial delay in rsyncing,
now that would be a useful thing. Did you try that, is that improved with
cvsup?
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Joy
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