Re: earliest use of rsync?

2004-03-29 Thread Peter L. Wargo
e like Andrew are so handy. :-) Cheers, -Pete - Peter L. Wargo | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.basenji.com/pwargo "There ought to be limits to freedom" - George W. Bush On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, raghu wrote: > Dear Folks, > > Is there a docume

Re: rsync'ing large files

2004-04-22 Thread Peter L. Wargo
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Wayne Davison wrote: > * Per-file dynamic block size is now sqrt(file length). The > per-file checksum size is determined according to an algorithm > provided by Donovan Baarda which reduces the probability of rsync > algorithm corrupting data and fallin

Re: rsync'ing large files

2004-04-23 Thread Peter L. Wargo
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Paul Slootman wrote: > I don't think that the overhead of one sqrt() per file will make much > difference either way... It might over tens of thousands of files... :-) -Pete -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting,

Re: rsync'ing large files

2004-04-23 Thread Peter L. Wargo
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Wayne Davison wrote: > Rsync doesn't call sqrt -- it just does a simple little integer > estimation. It is probable that using a hardware sqrt call would be > faster than rsync's estimator, but taking only 0.0041 seconds per > file instead of 0.0232 seconds per file(*