Cameron Moore writes:

 > The biggest difference between rsync and HTTP is that rsync downloads
 > diffs[1] while HTTP must download the entire file.  This is a big plus
 > for people with slow connections.

 > 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.

Agreed -- it is.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/

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