Re: Intelligent mirroring
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:35:10PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Rsync is of course so slow because it must touch every byte of every
> file on the client and server. This is important for archives where a
> lot of files are changing. But .debs with a given filename never
> change, so most of the md4summing disk/CPU activity is totally useless.
Check the docs for rsync, but IIRC it is possible to tell rsync to look at
timestamps and filesizes and skip files if they match. That should reduce
most files to a simple stat().
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
http://svana.org/kleptog/
> It would be nice if someone came up with a certification system that
> actually separated those who can barely regurgitate what they crammed over
> the last few weeks from those who command secret ninja networking powers.
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