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
> 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
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
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
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