Re: Unidentified subject!

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

Quoting Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@redhat.com):
> Daniel Veillard writes:
> >  I think too that setting up rsync servers on the gnome server could 
> >help a lot bypassing some of the current limitations.
> 
> If rsync is used, it is absolutely critical to set it up NOT to
> calculate md5sums of all files by default; rather, it should check
> only sizes/timestamps/etc.  If it's set up to check everything, it
> will push the load average of the server through the roof quickly.

  Ok, makes a lot of sense. What would be the next steps to set it up ?

I run rsync on rufus, and i agree that in the first phase, i.e. the file
list exchange it's seriously I/O and CPU hungry, but the transfer phase
behaves a lot like an FTP transfer session. Rsync is perfect for building
mirrors, but not for public accesses. I guess it perfectly fits the need
of building better mirrors of the Gnome server (CVS, ftp, http), which
seems to be one of the most urgent things to do.

  Daniel

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