From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qtqck-0004fM-4t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:38:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7E5021C329; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (unknown [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DC121C2D3 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39BBDED58 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:36:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ecyBL-1b+VHK for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:39:19 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97422DED55 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:36:00 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull? Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:35:59 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <2962306.tz4O8xtn7d@weird> <5798822.HQTIkZ2nyT@nazgul> In-Reply-To: <5798822.HQTIkZ2nyT@nazgul> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108180135.59919.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c7143fe8314c617b3306beee2a884107 On Wednesday 17 August 2011 23:03:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Why that amount? Is it really 5% or is it the number of blocks and 5% > just happens to round that out nicely? No, it's just somebody licking his finger, sticking it up into the wind to see which way it's blowing. Think-of-a-number, in other words. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23