yum differential updates

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Mon Apr 10 17:35:38 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 19:19 +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> 
> well the reason for beeing able to mirror the update repos with a
> permanently updated torrent would be simply that people are able to
> share the bandwidth they have open. rsync causes lots of server load
> afaik. mirroring is useful for a variety of reasons. 

But does torrent offer the ability that rsync does, to only grab the
differences?  If you're re-torrenting the whole thing every day that
seems less than optimal.

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