Batch mode creates huge diffs, bug(s)?

Joachim Otahal (privat) Jou at gmx.net
Tue Mar 20 13:41:37 MDT 2012


Matt Van Mater schrieb:
>
> Alternate assessment - I ran a similar comparison against the two 
> image files using rdiff that comes with Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (shown up 
> as librsync 0.9.7) and have a significantly smaller delta file (closer 
> to what i expect).

Just plain luck. If ubuntu wrote the most new files close to the last 
used blocks and only changes a few bytes (this time literally) in the 
middle then the desync happens later. The 400 MB delta still looks big, 
or did you install something big like libreoffice?

regards,

Joachim Otahal



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