Wasn't suggesting that GNU tar or PDtar or any suchlike would be usable. I'm pretty sure that whatever protocol is used, you probably can't have a standard client or server simply because of the size of the data to be transfered. Maybe rsync would work with a custom rsyncd? Not so familiar with that protocol. Doesn't it compute an md5 for all files and ship it around? -russ ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Brion Vibber [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 7:22 PM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] forking media files
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson < [email protected]> wrote: > rsync doesn't have the MW database to consult for changes. > That's an implementation detail, isn't it? GNU tar doesn't either. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
