I'm inclined to agree with jw that truthfully representing time and
leap seconds is a problem for the operating system, not for us. We
just need to be able to accurately represent whatever it tells us,
without thinking very much about the meaning.
Somebody previously pointed out that timestamp p
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 09:03:32AM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 2002-07-26-03:37:51 jw schultz:
> > All that matters is that we can represent the timestamps in
> > a way that allows consistent comparison, restoration and
> > transfer.
>
> A very good statement indeed. There are complications, tho
2002-07-21-04:12:55 jw schultz:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 07:06:29PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> >6. No arbitrary limits: this is related to scalability.
> > Filesizes and times should be 64-bit; names should be
> > arbitrarily long.
>
> File sizes, yes. Times, no. unsigned 32
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:15:29 +1000
From: Martin Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Swabbing to/from network endianness is very cheap. On 486s and higher
it is a single inlined instruction and I think takes about one cycle.
On non-x86 it is free. The cost is barely worth considering
People have proposed network-endianness, ascii fields, etc.
Here's a straw-man proposal on handling this for people to criticize,
ignite, feed to horses, etc. I don't have any specific numbers to
back it up, so take it with a grain of salt. Experiments would be
pretty straightforward.
Swabbi
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 02:00:21PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2002, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > .From what i can see rsync is very clever. The biggest
> > problems i see with its inability to scale for large trees,
> > a little bit of accumulated cruft and featuritis, an
On 21 Jul 2002, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> .From what i can see rsync is very clever. The biggest
> problems i see with its inability to scale for large trees,
> a little bit of accumulated cruft and featuritis, and
> excessively tight integration.
Yes, I think that's basically the
I've put a cleaned-up version of my design notes up here
http://samba.org/~mbp/superlifter/design-notes.html
It's very early days, but (gentle :-) feedback would be welcome. It
has some comments on Wayne's rzync design, which on the whole looks
pretty clever.
I don't have any worthwhile code
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Wayne Davison wrote:
> There are still unsquashed bugs lurking, so be careful. For instance, I
> tried to copy my .mozilla dir, and the huge Cache hierarchy is currently
> giving it grief. I'll debug this problem next.
Turned out to be a silly oversight on a realloc of some
For the small number of people who are checking this out, I released
version 0.05 a couple days ago (and only mentioned it on my new-protocol
web page) followed today by 0.06. Some highlights of the two releases:
- We handle symlinks now in our recursive synchronization mode.
- Directory scanni
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