On 7 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Actually the load should drop, providing the following feature add > ons: > > 1. cached checksums and pulling instead of pushing > 2. client side unpackging of compressed streams
Apparently reversing the direction of rsync infringes on a patent. Plus there is the simple matter that the file listing and file download features cannot be seperated. Doing a listing of all files on our site is non-trivial. Once you strip all that out you have rproxy. Reversed checksums (with a detached checksum file) is something someone should implement for debian-cd. You calud even quite reasonably do that totally using HTTP and not run the risk of rsync load at all. Such a system for Package files would also be acceptable I think. Jason
