SHA question

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Thu Jan 14 15:16:18 GMT 2010


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:03:33PM +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:59:22PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> >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.
> Possibly I'm missing something, but: ssh?

That boils down to the same thing - it ends up invoking rsync at the
other end in daemon mode and talking the rsync protocol tunnelled
through ssh.

What I was getting at was that I don't see a better way of working if
you have to use a networky filesystem.

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