On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On ext2, as an example, stat()ting or open()ing a directory of 1
> files in the order returned by readdir() will be vastly quicker than
> in some other sequence (like, say, bytewise lexicographic) due to the
> way in which the filesystem looks up i
Hi,
On 6 Jul 2003, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> 2. most of the time you have no old file to rsync against. Only
> mirrors will have an old file and they already use rsync.
This is definitely true if you install your system from CD's and then
upgrade it. However, if you keep on upgrading from testin
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> It should put them in the package in the order they came from
> readdir(), which will depend on the filesystem. This is normally the
> order in which they were created, and should not vary when
> rebuilding. As such, sorting the list probably doesn't c
Hi,
>From time to time the question arises on different forums whether it is
possible to efficiently use rsync with apt-get. Recently there has been a
thread here on debian-devel and it was also mentioned in Debian Weekly News
June 24th, 2003. However, I only saw different small parts of a huge an
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