Keep one BIG file in sync

[tim.conway at philips.com]

It uses a "rolling" checksum, so that it can actually find byte-level 
changes, insertions, deletions.  There's a block size for how big a chunk 
to start with, but then it works within those to figure out where to make 
the changes.  It's hyper-efficient.  The thing about transferring whole 
files (-W option) is actually an override of the default, mostly to keep 
it from wasting time reading everything twice over NFS, or for any case 
where you know up front that you're better off just sending the whole 
thing if you have to read it at all (time or size mismatch).

Tim Conway
tim.conway at philips.com
303.682.4917
Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC
1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D
Longmont, CO 80501
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perl -e 'print pack(nnnnnnnnnnnn, 
19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970), 
".\n" '
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