rsync and rawhide
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Mon Oct 20 21:53:36 UTC 2003
> The problem is that RPM is a compressed format. Change one byte in it and
> there are chances ALL the remainder of the file is different. One thing
gzip can be patched to avoid this. Debian have done so for apt/dpkg (Rusty
did a talk on this). It was tried ages ago but caused a problem that should
now be fixed.
Another big problem for the ftp sites is that rsync is relatively cpu/mem
intensive so 3000 parallel rsyncs isnt too cool
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