* Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> [2010-03-28 18:20]: > I'm missing something here, I suspect.
Yes, you are. > How can HTTP be more efficient than rsync? The only obvious > method to me of mirroring a CPAN site by HTTP is to instruct > a client (such as wget) to get it all. As Arthur has repeatedly pointed this out: by first fetching a transaction log from the remote end, then playing it forward from the last synch point. (This is essentially what CPAN::Mini already does.) It’s not very efficient protocol-wise, but it sure is rather cheap in terms of server I/O. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
