Excellent! Sorry, I must have missed this email when it came through. I look forward to seeing the implementation for this.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Philipp Heckel <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > > >
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