Cameron Moore writes: > We would need to preserve the timestamp for the 302 code stuff to work. > > The biggest difference between rsync and HTTP is that rsync downloads > diffs[1] while HTTP must download the entire file. This is a big plus > for people with slow connections. > > I guess _my_ question in regard to rsync is how much would rsync > actually help in our case. If a tile is changed -- say we fixed a > runway or something -- would a diff accomplish anything since we have > binary scenery files that are also gzipped? Would the rolling checksums > that rsync does all end up being different, so we are always downloading > the entire file anyway? If this is the case, then rsync's main > advantage is worthless to us. > > [1] ftp://rsync.samba.org/pub/rsync/tech_report.ps
My bet is that if we change a tile it will likely have to retransfer the whole thing, especially since we are compressing the files on disk. But to me, the main feature of rsync is that it does everything and I don't have to think about how it works or reimpliment it myself. :-) Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
