A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 14, 2005, Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Indeed there are serveral approaches to this problem, all with their
> upsides and downsides. I'm currently treating the cpio archive as one
> big file, and you're probably right -- treating it a  file system may
> yield better results.

I doubt it.  In several cases, files get packaged in different
directories or have names changed because of a version change, and
then per-file deltas or rsync of individual files won't save you
anything, but rsync of the entire archive will be able to pick up the
unchanging bits.

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