Hey Stefan, I'll tackle that problem in my Master thesis. Check out what I wrote here: https://lists.launchpad.net/syncany-team/msg00082.html
Cheers, Philipp On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Stefan Mai <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it would be useful to have arbitrary chunk sizes in Syncany. In all > cases where there is an insertion to the beginning of a file that is not of > length 512, the rest of the file will be offset and all subsequent chunks > will be marked dirty and discarded. I think it would be useful to have a > procedure that tries to find existing chunks in the new file and generates a > minimal changeset. This might result in fragmentation as smaller and smaller > chunks are created, so there should also be a feature to combine fragments > into larger chunks so that filesystem performance isn't degraded. > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? Should I file a blueprint for this? > > See Chapter 3 of Andrew Tridgell's thesis for more details about how rsync > accomplishes this: > http://samba.org/~tridge/phd_thesis.pdf > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
