rsync vs. rcp

[va_public <yahoogroups at vikas.mailshell.com>]

--- In rsync at yahoogroups.com, Donovan Baarda <abo at m...> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 05:55, va_public  wrote:
> 
> RSYNC DOES NOT WORK WITH 1GB+ FILES... unless you have a 
sufficiently
> large block size. See the following;
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@l.../msg05219.html

OK. I read the thread. Pretty interesting design discussion on rsync 
internals.

Has any of it been implemented in 2.5.6? When is it planned to 
implement it?

So, bottom line, you are telling me, dont use rsync for my Oracle 
database backups?

Thats a bummer. Oracle database files are pretty sparse and, at a 
block level, very few things change, so I was hoping that 
using 'rsync' instead of 'rcp' to do my daily backups would be 
IMMENSELY faster.

As per the final messages on the thread, just increasing the csum 
from 2 to 4 bytes seemed to miraculously solve the problem, right? So 
why isnt this patch being included?

Thanks