Re: Rsync on servers (was Re: RFC: Checking for updates)
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 06:15:43AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Someone mentioned that they were working on pregenerating the checksum
> data and storing it alongside the files on disk, to cut down on server
> processing. For files which will be rsync'd many times, this seems like
> it would be a win.
Last time I heard this idea, it was pointed out that the checksum data is 4
or 8 times larger than the file it is checksumming.
I don't think archive maintainers would like that...
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