-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Warren Young wrote: > If you don't compress the tar file, > there's a nonzero chance that rsync can still save some I/O when > synchronizing after the first copy.
There's a quite high chance that it would transfer only the modified bytes with some margin up to the next "block boundary"... Maybe not "optimal" such as bsdiff, but at least it's on-the-fly and doesn't require 17 times the file size in RAM amount ;-) Lapo - -- L a p o L u c h i n i l a p o @ l a p o . i t w w w . l a p o . i t / -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkHv6IYACgkQaJiCLMjyUvthyACfbLvMjUtgP06hxp8l9L9dZB6b czEAoJ4pYC6YfDWtED/gIqt4lZz44ExP =163c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
