Re: discussing a "reverse rsync algorithm"

2006-05-19 Thread Matt McCutchen
Note: the reverse rsync algorithm with cached checksums is essentially what zsync uses. Zsync may be found here: http://zsync.moria.org.uk/ I like the flexibility of rsync, but I also like zsync's reversed algorithm. I would love to see the two programs merged into an rsync that uses .zs

Re: discussing a "reverse rsync algorithm"

2006-04-28 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:11:41PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > I believe the sender should compute and send the block hashes. This has come up before, and it may well be something to make available as an option, but I don't think it should be the default for a number of reasons: (1) This incre