On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:45:49AM -0500, Scott Nanni wrote: > yes, rsync is "the bomb" > > and it uses some sort of digest algorithm to pull out the most > significant bits and formulate a checksum which is usually just > like a 128 bit string or so.. then I imaginge it would exchange > the checksums and compare them to see if the file has changed
It's a little more complicate than that, actually, but that's the basic idea. For more details, have a look at /usr/share/doc/rsync/tech_report.tex.gz. Interestingly, it was written by a couple of guys from my Uni from a few years back and I think they got a PhD related to it. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/
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