Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for an alternative portage tree sync method

[Ricardo Correia <gentoo-dev@wizy.org>]

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 15:03, Simon Stelling wrote:
> And where is the benefit beside mirrors don't need to have a running
> rsync? If it uses exactly the same algorithm for finding the
> differences, users won't download less.
>

As it was already mentioned, it works through HTTP.

But what I think is great is that a sync doesn't have to work on 110,000 
files, instead it only works on 1 file sequentially.
As you perhaps know how disks work, this should be a lot faster.

And zsync can be even better, it's still in the early stages of development.

I see only benefits (even if we just compare it to emerge-webrsync) :)
But only through experimentation we'll be able to see the difference..
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