Re: Bug#128818: apt-rsync is great
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
>Actually, if everyone started using it I'd deny anon rsync access to our
>servers.
>From the way you present that, it looks like an arbitrary purposeless
decision. Would you care to explain your motives?
>I'm sure it's existance is already disrupting our mirroring process <sigh>
I don't see how doing an rsync against a server would be more
disruptive than doing an HTTP query against the same server,
especially when the rsync transfers many fewer bytes. How could this
be disrupting the mirroring process?
Each time your server is hit by a user of dselect, in the present
scheme an entire file is copied (which may be gzipped) or in the
proposed new scheme an rsync will be done (on an uncompressed file, to
make comparisons efficient). The files don't change all that fast, so
an rsync will generally be more efficient than copying the whole file.
Why is this a bad thing?
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Tim Freeman
tim@fungible.com
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