Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread David
On 8/29/2010 3:14 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > David gmail.com> writes: > >> I think that I understand the principal behind this. Disk space nor >> bandwidth are not problems for me. I was thinking of others that might >> have a bandwidth/byte counter problem. >> >> Explain to me just how download

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread David
On 8/29/2010 2:56 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:29 -0400, David wrote: >> I think that I understand the principal behind this. Disk space nor >> bandwidth are not problems for me. I was thinking of others that might >> have a bandwidth/byte counter problem. >> >> Explain to

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread Hiisi
2010/8/29 Andre Robatino : <--SNIP--> > > The performance of zsync vs. deltaisos varies from almost as good to much > worse, > depending on how many packages have changed between old and new ISOs. (For > example, going from Fedora (N-1) to Fedora N Alpha TC1, zsync is almost > useless, > since al

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread Andre Robatino
Should also mention that since the difference between zsync and deltaisos is either downloading changed RPMs in full vs. using deltarpms on them, this means that if both were provided, then people with either sufficiently fast connections (meaning around 5 Mbits/s) or a very slow PC would be better

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread Andre Robatino
David gmail.com> writes: > I think that I understand the principal behind this. Disk space nor > bandwidth are not problems for me. I was thinking of others that might > have a bandwidth/byte counter problem. > > Explain to me just how downloading only a part of the new ISO, the > changes, and t

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 21:56 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > The Fedora project (or an interested user) creates the deltaiso. To clarify, this is theoretical. The Fedora project is *not* creating official deltaisos right now. However, any deltaiso should build into a byte-for-byte copy of the new

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:29 -0400, David wrote: > I think that I understand the principal behind this. Disk space nor > bandwidth are not problems for me. I was thinking of others that might > have a bandwidth/byte counter problem. > > Explain to me just how downloading only a part of the new ISO,

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread David
On 8/29/2010 12:39 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > David gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Is it possible to make a deltaiso without having both the older ISO and >> the Newer ISO on a local system. >> >> Example. Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso was downloaded. A >> Fedora-14-Alpha-2-x86_64-Live.iso is ava

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread Andre Robatino
David gmail.com> writes: > > Is it possible to make a deltaiso without having both the older ISO and > the Newer ISO on a local system. > > Example. Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso was downloaded. A > Fedora-14-Alpha-2-x86_64-Live.iso is availible for download. > > Can a deltaiso be made with

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/29/2010 8:05 AM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 06:51 -0400, David wrote: >> On 8/29/2010 2:30 AM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: >>> On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 01:49 -0400, David wrote: Is it possible to make a deltaiso without having bot

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 06:51 -0400, David wrote: > On 8/29/2010 2:30 AM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 01:49 -0400, David wrote: > >> Is it possible to make a deltaiso without having both the older ISO and > >> the Newer ISO on a local system. > >> > >> Example. Fedora-14-Alpha-x

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-29 Thread David
On 8/29/2010 2:30 AM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 01:49 -0400, David wrote: >> Is it possible to make a deltaiso without having both the older ISO and >> the Newer ISO on a local system. >> >> Example. Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso was downloaded. A >> Fedora-14-Alpha-2-x86_64

Re: DeltaISOs

2010-08-28 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 01:49 -0400, David wrote: > Is it possible to make a deltaiso without having both the older ISO and > the Newer ISO on a local system. > > Example. Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso was downloaded. A > Fedora-14-Alpha-2-x86_64-Live.iso is availible for download. > > Can a del