On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 19:22, Damon Lynch wrote: > 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.
Would seem to me that it would be better as well. I've seen discussions in here about this before and everyone is always mystified. Seems to me to be the same convoluted thinking ISP's in the US have on bandwidth. In Korea when you were constantly maxing your bandwidth they send out a salesman to sell you more. In the US they cut you off and blacklist you. (Then wonder why no one wants to buy more bandwidth.) Everyone sells download and cuts upload... then wonders why people don't need to download. James > > Damon
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