rsync and debian -- summary of issues

[Michael Salmon]

On Thursday, April 11, 2002 06:15:43 PM +1000 Martin Pool <mbp at samba.org> 
wrote:
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| There seems to be a thread about rsync and Debian packages every
| couple of months.  I've written up a document which tries to cover all
| of the questions and debates.  It's pretty informal, but hopefully
| will be useful.
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|   http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/
|
| I'd appreciate comments.
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There is a patch that creates a file list that can be used later and hence 
avoids the file walk which addresses the server load that you complain 
about but IIRC it was intended to be used in server-push rather than 
client-pull, still it could be a start.

/Michael
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