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Re: setup RFC: Ditch homegrown http/ftp code and use a library?


On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 03:08 +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> >Thats my point : rsync doesn't require the same file name to use the
> >content for optimisation. You tell rsync what file to use as the basis,
> >and what file to write to.
> >
> This, if you rsync one file at a time, but if you create the symlinks in
> every directory, then you can rsync the whole directory tree with a
> single command, and is much more efficient. (only one connection for all
> the files)

Huh? Doing what I suggest has nothing to do with the # of connections,
the protocol supports it completely. It might, if you are spawning rsync
locally each time, with the file list option, you could (easily) add a
new file destination list, and that would provide the single connection,
custom basis approach.

> Anyway... this could lead to a more-optimized script to "download most
> of it", not really to be included in "setup" so...

Sure.

Rob 

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