On Oct 30, 2004, "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz(a)simpaticus.com> wrote:
I'm going to assume that you mean "1GB" (as in
gigabyte) since I have no
idea what a "Go" is.
Giga-octet. You know, bytes don't have to have 8 bits. French is
more precise than English, at least in this regard.
That being said, one of the beauties of rsync is
that it will *not* need to reread the entire file
Not quite. Both ends will have to reread the entire file, possibly
even twice. They won't have to *transfer* the entire file, but for a
mirror, disk bandwidth may also be a critical resource. Still, it
would be no different from the current situation, in which a package
is first published unsigned, and some time next day (or a few days
later :-) a signature is stapled to it.
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