Re: rsync over ssh/nfs (was: server crashing)

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:57:32AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 01:35:50AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > Otherwise, the entire *point* of rsync is to *not* transfer the
> > entire data of the file over the network, and running rsync over
> > NFS entirely defeats that, since to checksum the hunks of the file
> > the entire file must be read over NFS...which is to say, over the
> > network!
> 
> Idle question: is rdist clever in the way rsync is, dealing with chunks
> of file rather than entire files?

No, rdist and rsync targets different goals.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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