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Re: 2.0-beta CD Image mirror sites ?



> Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:
> > The problem with rsync at the moment is that if the transfer is
> > interrupted, it throws away the partial image --- Andrew Tridgell said
> > he'd fix this though.
> ...
> > If you use wget, and find that the md5sum that results is wrong, you
> > should be able to fix any trasmission errors with rsync in short
> > order, because it will only send the difference beween your broken
> > copy and the real one.
> 
> If this is the case, it seems like you could pad out the file
> using dd </dev/zero >>..... and then use rsync to "correct the
> changes".

No need to dd, rsync just handles it anyway.

Cheers, Phil.


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