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  From: Mike O <mike@PINEVIEW.NET>
  To  : Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@sa.pracom.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:22:11 +0930

Re: Uncompressed Kernel's for rsyncing

Hi Toby

Go look at RSYNC at rsync.samba.org

This system allow you to download only the very small part of each text or
binary file which has change, it all so compresses this transfer.

Cheers
    Mike O'Connor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Corkindale" <tjcorkin@sa.pracom.com.au>
To: "Mike O'Connor" <mike@pineview.net>
Cc: "LinuxSA" <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Uncompressed Kernel's for rsyncing


> It sounds like you should discover CVS.. ;)
>
> FreeBSD and OpenBSD, to name a couple of alternatives, have widely
mirrored,
> respectable, CVS trees available everywhere. It isn't a good look that
linux
> doesn't have this widely available, AFAIK.
>
> Anyway, from the Linux kernel patch point of view.. they've generally been
> about, what, 1 to 2 mb or so on average? Say they come out every month or
> two.. call it six weeks on average?
>
> (the 2.2 branch was definately longer than that thou, i suspect)
>
> What is that, maybe $0.20 per month, to keep up to date with the kernels?
>
> If you are downloading large chunks of uncompressed code, I can see it
would
> take a lot more bandwidth and be more expensive..
>
> Toby
>
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>
> > Hi Toby
> >
> > I do not want to download the whole kernel each time (It costs me a lot)
so
> > the rsync server which had kernels unzipped, allowed me rsync down only
the
> > small parts of each file which have changed.
> >
> > Mike
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Toby Corkindale" <tjcorkin@sa.pracom.com.au>
> > To: "Mike O'Connor" <mike@PINEVIEW.NET>
> > Cc: "LinuxSA" <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:48 AM
> > Subject: Re: Uncompressed Kernel's for rsyncing
> >
> >
> > > What's wrong with just checking the last-modified timestamp on the
file?
> > >
> > > (either visually or from your automated script)
> > >
> > > TC
> > >
> > > On Sat, 26 May 2001, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All
> > > >
> > > > Since the downfall of linuxcare I have not been able to find an
rsync
> > server
> > > > which keeps up to date linux kernel in uncompressed form.
> > > >
> > > > For your Info:
> > > > Sites which keep kernel in compressed form and have rsync services
are
> > > > useless, because gzip and bzip2 do not keep the data in a form which
> > rsync's
> > > > well or at all. :)
> > > >
> > > > So does any one know of a site ?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > >     Mike
> > > >
> >
>
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