Re: Storage compression patch for Rsync (unfinished)

2003-01-26 Thread Dave Dykstra
Is there any reason why caching programs would need to set the value, rather than it just being a fixed value? I think it is hard to describe what this is for and what it should be set to. Maybe a --fixed-checksum-seed option would make some sense, or for a caching mechanism to be built in to

Re: Storage compression patch for Rsync (unfinished)

2003-01-26 Thread Craig Barratt
Is there any reason why caching programs would need to set the value, rather than it just being a fixed value? I think it is hard to describe what this is for and what it should be set to. Maybe a --fixed-checksum-seed option would make some sense, or for a caching mechanism to be built in

Re: Storage compression patch for Rsync (unfinished)

2003-01-26 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:46:43PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: Is there any reason why caching programs would need to set the value, rather than it just being a fixed value? I think it is hard to describe what this is for and what it should be set to. Maybe a --fixed-checksum-seed option

Re: Storage compression patch for Rsync (unfinished)

2003-01-26 Thread Craig Barratt
Block checksums come from the receiver so cached block checksums are only useful when sending to a server which had better know it has block checksums cached. The first statement is true (block checksums come from the receiver), but the second doesn't follow. I need to cover the case where

Re: Storage compression patch for Rsync (unfinished)

2003-01-26 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:04:52PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: Block checksums come from the receiver so cached block checksums are only useful when sending to a server which had better know it has block checksums cached. The first statement is true (block checksums come from the

Re: Storage compression patch for Rsync (unfinished)

2003-01-26 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:46:43PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: Is there any reason why caching programs would need to set the value, rather than it just being a fixed value? I think it is hard to describe what this is for and what it should be set to. Maybe a --fixed-checksum-seed option

Re: Storage compression patch for Rsync (unfinished)

2003-01-17 Thread Craig Barratt
While the idea of rsyncing with compression is mildly attractive i can't say i care for the new compression format. It would be better just to use the standard gzip or other format. If you are going to create a new file type you could at least discuss storing the blocksums in it so that

Storage compression patch for Rsync (unfinished)

2003-01-15 Thread Harald Fielker
Hi, i am using Rsync for making backups of a MySQL database. The MySQL files can be compressed about 1:10 and i want to make use of this fact. Rsync currently doesn't support saving files in a compressed state. I personally think this should be a feature for the filesystem (in the sense of

Re: Storage compression patch for Rsync (unfinished)

2003-01-15 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:50:27AM +0100, Harald Fielker wrote: Hi, i am using Rsync for making backups of a MySQL database. The MySQL files can be compressed about 1:10 and i want to make use of this fact. Rsync currently doesn't support saving files in a compressed state. I personally