rsync replacement

[Matt McCutchen]

On 7/16/07, Andreas Kotes <count-linux at flatline.de> wrote:
> seems like they've implemented something similiar TCP on top of UDP
> which does a seriously better job (the information they provide points
> in that direction).

I'm wondering whether MTP is simply a better stream protocol (so that
rsync, could be run over an MTP connection and probably perform
similarly to syncdat) or to what extent it relies on the
parallelizability of a large file transfer to contain the effects of
packet loss.  There's some information at
http://www.dataexpedition.com/downloads/DEI-MTP-Info.pdf and
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7158479-claims.html .

Matt