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  From: Mike O <mike@PINEVIEW.NET>
  To  : Chris Yeoh <cyeoh@samba.org>
  Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:07:13 +0930

Re: Uncompressed Kernel's for rsyncing

Hi Chris

Thanks I knew about this, from talking to Rusty a few month ago, but as you
say most people are not using this as yet.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Yeoh" <cyeoh@samba.org>
To: "Mike O'Connor" <mike@pineview.net>
Cc: "Toby Corkindale" <tjcorkin@sa.pracom.com.au>; "LinuxSA"
<linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Uncompressed Kernel's for rsyncing


> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:22:11PM +0930, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Until this is more widely used it won't be of much help, but there is
> a patch available for gzip which makes it rsync friendly.  Only the
> gzip doing the compression needs to be patched.
>
> Rusty wrote it and a patch is here (not sure if its the latest one).
>
> http://antarctica.penguincomputing.com/~netfilter/diary/gzip.rsync.patch2
>
> Warning: If there is a bug in it you may not be able to gunzip
> your file!
>
> Chris.
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