I've said nothing till now, because I figured more noise wouldn't help much.
But I quite like the rsync daemon/proxy idea, and as it so happens I'm attending the OzLabs Unconference in 3 weeks time to hang out with Tridge, Rusty and the other Australia C/Kernel/Samba/RSync elites. So I'd be happy to raise any issues or ideas in this area with them in person over beers. Adam K On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Eric Wilhelm <enoba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Or even write an rsync daemon (or proxy perhaps) in Perl. So, when the > client asks for a file, you can answer without checking the disk. Can > something like that work with an unmodified client, or does the amount > of data needed to answer a naive client overwhelm any potential gain? > > Unfortunately the protocol is not formally documented and the perl code > I've seen (File::RsyncP) seems to be lagging:
