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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:15:45 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404130015.47642.jstubbs@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1081782749.25073.6.camel@carbon>

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On Tuesday 13 April 2004 00:12, Troy Dack wrote:
> Rsync compresses the information it sends, additionally (and most
> importantly) rsync only sends the differences, not the whole file, so it
> is even more efficient. Visit rsync.samba.org and have a read about how
> it all works.

Rsync does only send differences by default but emerge disables this behaviour 
simply because most of the files are about 1kb in size. The overhead CPU on 
both client and server is not worth the relatively small gain of doing it.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-12 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-11 11:55 [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers Tom St Denis
2004-04-12 10:45 ` Alexander Gretencord
2004-04-12 12:03   ` Tom St Denis
2004-04-12 12:23     ` Georgi Georgiev
2004-04-12 12:36       ` Tom St Denis
2004-04-12 14:18         ` N. Owen Gunden
2004-04-12 15:12         ` Troy Dack
2004-04-12 15:15           ` Jason Stubbs [this message]
2004-04-12 16:22           ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-04-12 16:23             ` Todd Berman
2004-04-12 16:59               ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-04-12 17:03                 ` Todd Berman
2004-04-12 17:17                   ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-04-12 17:39                     ` Todd Berman
2004-04-13  1:04                       ` Jason Stubbs
2004-04-13  3:35                         ` Todd Berman
2004-04-13 15:39                   ` [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers - personal experiences with a .zip-db Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2004-04-12 17:09                 ` [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers Tom St Denis
2004-04-12 17:19                   ` Norberto Bensa
2004-04-12 17:21                     ` Tom St Denis
2004-04-13 12:18     ` Chris Bainbridge
2004-04-13 16:12       ` Chris Bainbridge
2004-04-12 11:57 ` Senor Rodgman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-12 12:46 brettholcomb
2004-04-12 12:59 ` Tom St Denis
2004-04-12 19:55   ` Marius Mauch
2004-04-12 17:39 brettholcomb
2004-04-12 17:51 ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-04-12 20:00   ` Marius Mauch
2004-04-12 20:31     ` Marius Mauch
2004-04-12 20:46     ` Stuart Herbert
2004-04-12 20:58       ` Marius Mauch
2004-04-12 21:17         ` Stuart Herbert
2004-04-12 21:26           ` Spider
2004-04-12 23:44             ` Drake Wyrm
2004-04-12 21:26           ` Marius Mauch
2004-04-12 22:20             ` Stuart Herbert
2004-04-12 22:18               ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-04-12 22:38                 ` Stuart Herbert
2004-04-12 22:32               ` Marius Mauch
2004-04-12 22:44             ` Marius Mauch

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