On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 16:07, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:58, Damon Lynch wrote: > > > Question: how come rsync is not more popular? It seems like a wonderful > > protocol to me, but it seems to get little publicity among non-experts. > > Does it need a special graphical tool to make it more popular? > > > > Damon > > Damon from what I've seen it needs more sites that support it. Those > that do severely limit it.(ie the number of connections allowed) you are > right though... great tool.
That's my experience also. Why is this? Maybe CPU costs more than bandwidth for the servers? I assume they all use rsync to actually mirror their Mandrake content. I wonder if the rsync authors have a cache in mind to handle the CPU side of things. Damon -- Damon Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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