Request for Comments: updating RPMs using binary deltas.

Thu Jan 8 21:45:18 UTC 2004

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:19:24PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> Problem 3:  Server resources. The rsync computation clobbers the server
> compared to the overhead of just spewing bits. Given people are running
> 3000 vsftp sessions in parallel off big servers that is a concern.
> 
> 
> Problem 3 seems to be the big unsolved today. In theory the other bits
> are solved.

As has been mentioned numerous times elsewhere, problem 3 is readily
solved in the Free World using reverse-rsync and http range requests
from a fast static server like TUX.

	Bill Rugolsky