On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:16 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On 6/26/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Downside of this is, as Alex pointed out, it'll load the mesh a _lot_ > > more than XO->XO updates. > > Not necessarily. Rsync is pretty efficient: we're still basically > distributing just (blockwise) diffs. And we can always do XO-to-XO > later: the important thing is to get a rock-solid basis. The selling > point (to me) is the simplicity. Like I said: its the simplest thing > that works.
I'm not arguing simplicity; just that we have to be aware of the implications of having lots of XOs pulling from the server with some overlap with this method, but we don't with XO->XO. We just have to make the tradeoffs clear, and understand them. Dan > I can do some benchmarks if people actually need to see numbers. > --scott > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
