Hi,
I am a little curious about value of M. Its used in rsync algo for finding
modulus. ( http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/tech_report/node3.html ) In rsync,
it is kept to 2^32
What if like Adler 32, M is changed to nearest prime to 2^32, any idea what
effect it will have on resulting check-sums(In t
fallocate() is linux specific and will preallocate the space on disk for
the entire file. FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE does not change the filesize as
reported by stat(). An aborted transfer will have preallocated disk space
which is not "visible" via stat(). This shouldn't matter unless the user
does compl
The end of the strace for the initiating system, to which the directory tree
is being updated, follows. This is while the load is rapidly rising, and the
rsync display on the console has simply hung. I'll put the whole strace file
at http://transpect.com/rsync-11184.out.bz2 for anyone who wants mor