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On Tuesday 22 March 2005 15:03, Simon Stelling wrote: |
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> And where is the benefit beside mirrors don't need to have a running |
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> rsync? If it uses exactly the same algorithm for finding the |
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> differences, users won't download less. |
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As it was already mentioned, it works through HTTP. |
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But what I think is great is that a sync doesn't have to work on 110,000 |
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files, instead it only works on 1 file sequentially. |
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As you perhaps know how disks work, this should be a lot faster. |
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And zsync can be even better, it's still in the early stages of development. |
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I see only benefits (even if we just compare it to emerge-webrsync) :) |
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But only through experimentation we'll be able to see the difference.. |
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