SHA question

[Matthew Boyle]

David Cantrell wrote:
> 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.

the --no-whole-file option?  or am i missing something?

--matt


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