[Fwd: Re: rsync between partitions]

2001-04-13 Thread Randy Kramer
Peter T. Breuer wrote: > option. But I need to know if only parts of files are sent across by the > algorithm, or not. Yes. rsync sends blocks. IIRC, blocks are somewhere around 3000 to 8000 bytes. I read Andrew's thesis a few days ago. rsync definitely works in blocks. I'm not sure of

[Fwd: Re: rsync between partitions]

2001-04-13 Thread Randy Kramer
"A month of sundays ago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:" > You've got two choices. Hack the code to do the updates in-place, > or copy the disk images to a filesystem, and treat them as files. Mmm ... partitions too large, I fear. Hacking the code seems the better option. But I need to know if onl