How does flist work

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sun Mar 23 15:21:53 GMT 2008


On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:55:48AM -0700, zahed wrote:
> And could you tell me why do both receiver and generator have to
> receive the file list[?]

Because the files that the receiving side is reconstructing are those
of the sending side, so we need to know the state of the files on the
sending side to check for the new/changed/extraneous files on the
receiving side.

..wayne..


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