>This really is a minor point because as Martin pointed out, the fact that
>rsync's pipelining would be defeated means that the idea would have a
>drastic effect on throughput.
Okay, everyone has convinced me that my problem (excessive traffic in
the reverse direction) is best solved by simply sp
Welcome to the rsync list, Phil. Martin and David provided excellent
responses, but there's one more small point I want to make:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:42:59PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> The main drawback I can see to exchanging hashes by
> default is the extra receiver CPU time c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes:
> >While potentially a useful option, you wouldn't want the protocol to
> >automatically always check for it, since it would preclude rsync on
>
> This extension need not break any existing mechanism; if the hash of
> the receiver's copy of the file d
On 12 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >While potentially a useful option, you wouldn't want the protocol to
> >automatically always check for it, since it would preclude rsync on
>
> This extension need not break any existing mechanism; if the hash of
> the receiver's copy of the file doesn'
>While potentially a useful option, you wouldn't want the protocol to
>automatically always check for it, since it would preclude rsync on
This extension need not break any existing mechanism; if the hash of
the receiver's copy of the file doesn't match the start of the
sender's file, the protoco
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes:
> It seems to me that this situation is common enough that the rsync
> protocol should look for it as a special case. Once the protocol has
> determined from differing timestamps and/or lengths that a file needs
> to be synchronized, the receiver shou
On 12 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It seems to me that this situation is common enough that the rsync
> protocol should look for it as a special case. Once the protocol has
> determined from differing timestamps and/or lengths that a file needs
> to be synchronized, the receiver should re
