filelist caching optimization proposal

[Carson Gaspar]

--On Monday, May 23, 2005 03:24:07 PM +0200 Edwin Eefting <edwin at datux.nl> 
wrote:

> My idea is to create a patch for something like a --cache option that
> will use  a cached version of the filelist: This way instead of creating
> the filelist  every time (100.000's of system calls, diskaccesses), we
> can now load the  filelist in one instance. This is even more usefull for
> rsync-servers, that  are usually read-only. (like the gentoo mirrors or
> kernel.org which always  has a +100 load it seems ;)

You should take a look at how sup/cvsup behave before diving in, as they do 
something similar.

-- 
Carson