Re: Block size optimization - let rsync find the optimal blocksize by itself.

2002-06-30 Thread jw schultz
I dislike flaming and i don't intend my comments as flame but you have made some statements that at face value are problematic. Perhaps you could correct my misunderstanding. On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Olivier Lachambre wrote: > Hello, > Another French student in the rsync maili

Re: Block size optimization - let rsync find the optimal blocksize by itself.

2002-06-30 Thread tridge
> I believe that the compression option turns on compression of transfered > data, including file lists, instruction streams etc. Even with compression > turned off, the miss data in the delta is still compressed. nope! Compression only compresses file data, not file lists etc. The file lists a

Re: Block size optimization - let rsync find the optimal blocksize by itself.

2002-06-30 Thread tridge
Olivier, > Well, the first comment: during my work, I wanted to verify that the > theorical optimal block size sqrt(24*n/Q) given by Andrew Tridgell in his > PHd Thesis was actually the good one, and when doing the tests on randomly > generated & modified files I discovered that the size sqrt(7

Re: Block size optimization - let rsync find the optimal blocksize by itself.

2002-06-30 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Olivier Lachambre wrote: [...] > Well, the first comment: during my work, I wanted to verify that the > theorical optimal block size sqrt(24*n/Q) given by Andrew Tridgell in his > PHd Thesis was actually the good one, and when doing the tests on randomly

Block size optimization - let rsync find the optimal blocksize by itself.

2002-06-30 Thread Olivier Lachambre
Hello, Another French student in the rsync mailing list. I have been working on rsync this year for a documentation project for school and I would like to give some comment about rsync block size optimization first, and then to submit a way to make rsync choose by itself the optimal blocksize wh