linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-20 Thread Andrew Shewmaker
I just read an article on Kernel Trap that mentioned that rsync wasn't quite meeting the needs of the linux kernel developers and I was wondering if H. Peter Anvin or Nathan Laredo had expressed their needs to the rsync developers? I didn't see anything in the mail archives. ... While the pu

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:18:13PM -0600, Andrew Shewmaker wrote: > I was wondering if H. Peter Anvin or Nathan Laredo had expressed their > needs to the rsync developers? No, they've not talked about what they're doing here. It would be very interesting to hear their thoughts on a utility that w

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Andrew Shewmaker
On 6/21/05, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:18:13PM -0600, Andrew Shewmaker wrote: > > I was wondering if H. Peter Anvin or Nathan Laredo had expressed their > > needs to the rsync developers? > > No, they've not talked about what they're doing here. It would

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Wesley Craig
On 21 Jun 2005, at 11:49, Wayne Davison wrote: No, they've not talked about what they're doing here. It would be very interesting to hear their thoughts on a utility that worked better with large numbers of files. One thing that I had thought to look into at some point is a way to monitor t

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Mark Thornton
Wayne Davison wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:18:13PM -0600, Andrew Shewmaker wrote: I was wondering if H. Peter Anvin or Nathan Laredo had expressed their needs to the rsync developers? No, they've not talked about what they're doing here. It would be very interestin

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Andrew Shewmaker
On 6/21/05, Wesley Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Jun 2005, at 11:49, Wayne Davison wrote: > > No, they've not talked about what they're doing here. It would be > > very > > interesting to hear their thoughts on a utility that worked better > > with > > large numbers of files. One thing

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:14:29PM +0100, Mark Thornton wrote: > Rsync appears not to use its difference mechanism for transmitting > this list. Where the percentage of files changed is small, rsync might > be a great deal faster if it did transmit this list in the same way as > regular files. Yea

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > The idea is that each machine keeps a transcript of what it has (or > had), and generates a list of changes locally. If the master server maintained a list of the files that were changed, the mirroring systems could use the --files-