On Sun Aug 03 0:25 -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > Hmm... well, that could be. I've just been believing what rsync tells > me. ;) Looking back on my logs, the biggest syncs I've seen in the last > few months have been about ~200MB; on most of those I save about > ~60-70MB. So I'm saving some bandwidth on some other things > somewhere--and, I am seeing some benefit on contrib which doesn't > really any meta info files in it, except the synthesis.hdlist... > > But okay, still, say it turns out that it doesn't work for any of the > RPMs, and I'm only saving badwidth on the deplist and friends--I'm > still *overall* getting the speedups that I mentioned for the kind of > synchronization schedule that I'm using. =) If I just ftp'd everything, > that would be ~30% data I downloaded every time, whether or not it's > RPM data. > > I guess if what you say is true, I'd get less of an [apparent?] benefit > if I didn't sync as often, since the RPM data to depslist-type data > ratio would be higher.
Or you could just do as I do with fmirror: only download just enough metadata to allow gendistrib to work, and run that. -- Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take due notice and govern yourselves accordingly. Currently playing: Rush - Vapor Trails - Sweet Miracle Linux 2.4.21-3mdk 09:58:02 up 7 days, 12:45, 8 users, load average: 1.82, 1.19, 0.73
