On Friday 05 September 2003 11:49, Antony Stone wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 10:34 am, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > On Friday 05 September 2003 00:04, Alfredo Rezinovsky wrote: > > > The virus definition database update downloads a big file (ok, it�s no > > > so big) to update a file that is almost the same. I think it will be > > > good to have a non compressed virus definition database accesible via > > > rsync protocol. > > > > Just FYI (and I have no idea how good or whether at all it works): gzip > > supports a an output format that should work well with rsync. > > rsync contains its own compression algorithm which does an excellent job on > its own.
I just thought that having the same files available for HTTP-download and rsync, it would be advantageous if they were compressed. (I don't know how widespread support for x-gzip encoding in HTTP is - ignoring for now the additional CPU load on the server). greets -- vbi -- "It takes all sorts of in & out-door schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling" - R. Frost
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