Transforming file names & contents

[Wayne Davison]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:57:59PM -0800, Rick Mann wrote:
> Is there any way to [have locally-compressed files] in rsync?

No, not at this time.  To implement it would require some new kind of a
"quick check" algorithm, which would probably require a database of some
kind (the existing algorithm compares the file's modified-time and its
size, so that won't work for having a shorter file on one side of the
transfer).  Nothing like this is currently planned, but others have
written tools that talk the rsync protocol and interface to a database
instead of a filesystem.  Another option would be to use some kind of a
compressed filesystem.

..wayne..