On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 12:37:00PM +1200, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > 4. (and this is the knockout) rsync support for apt-get is NO > > WANTED. rsync uses too much resources (cpu and more relevant IO) on > > the server side and a widespread use of rsync for apt-get would choke > > the rsync mirrors and do more harm than good. > > When I was looking into this I heard about some work into caching the rolling > checksums to eliminate server load. I didn't find any code. That would be because the checksums would take at least 8 times the space of the original files. You need the backward-rsync which was patented last I heard. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or > religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. > Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." > - Samuel P. Huntington
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