On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Andrea Mennucc1 wrote: > rsync contains a wonderful algorithm to speedup downloads when mirroring > files which have only minor differences; > only problem is, this algorithm is ALMOST NEVER used > when mirroring a debian repository
Small detail here, .debs, like .gz files are basically not-rsyncable. gzip effectively randomizes the contents of the files making the available differences very, very small. This is particularly true for .debs when you add in the fact that gcc never produces binary identical output on consecutive runs. Please *do not* run a client with this type of patch connected to any of our servers, it will send the load sky high for no good reason, rsync is already responsible for silly amounts of load, do not make it worse. Jason