> Some questions that need to be asked: > Howmany of our mirrors are rsyncable? How much load can the servers handle? How much more load does rsync do than a fast http server like tux?
I think the proposed way of providing diff's for certain "common" versions is much nicer. Sending a request for Packages-diff-mymd5sum.gz and fetching that file is certainly faster and does cause much less load on the server than rsync. It actually will even require less data to be transferred. When the file doesn't exist i can always fallback to fetching the whole file or maybe rsync then... Keeping 14 daily diffs probably does take just a few megs on the server. Providing rsync will probably need as much main memory... But we HAD this discussion already a few days ago... Greetings, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
