SHA question

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:02:51PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:

> That reminds me of how I was disappointed to find that rsync generally
> transfers complete files (rather than diffs) if both source and
> destination are on a local file system -- before I realised that to
> compute the diffs, it would have to read the entire first and second
> files, and if it's going to read the entire first file from disk
> anyway, it can simply dump it over the second file without checking.
> Computing diffs would be more work in this case, not less.

Shame that "local" includes "at the other end of a really slow NFS
connection to the other side of the world". Mind you, absent running the
rsync daemon at the other end and using that instead of NFS, I'm not
sure if there's a better way of doing it.

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David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information