On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Cameron Moore wrote: > I guess _my_ question in regard to rsync is how much would rsync > actually help in our case. If a tile is changed -- say we fixed a > runway or something -- would a diff accomplish anything since we have > binary scenery files that are also gzipped? Would the rolling checksums > that rsync does all end up being different, so we are always downloading > the entire file anyway? If this is the case, then rsync's main > advantage is worthless to us.
Having used rsync to transfer 650MB cd images I can say that it DOES help a lot - having it "download" the new one in 10 minutes after a few minor changes at the other end is rather impressive on a 512Kb/s DSL line. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
