Brian Warner wrote: > When rsync decides that the file might have changed, over a regular network > (e.g. ssh), it uses a clever differencing algorithm. It does one read at the > source, one read at the destination, some amount of writing over the network, > and some amount of writing at the destination, where the amount of > network+writing depends upon how much has actually changed (there's some > reading over the network too, but it's a small fraction of the filesize). The > algorithm is so clever that it can efficiently handle insertions and > deletions. >
That clears it up a bit! I don't know any of rsync's tricks that I couldn't discover with lsof or ls -a.... -Luke _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@allmydata.org http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
