Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting revisions w/ HTTP protocol and time to complete

[Thomas Zander]

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On Friday 17 October 2003 00:08, Jason McCarty wrote:
> I proposed (in a rough sense) one implementation of "summary deltas,"
...
> I think you could probably do as well with summaries, if you don't mind
> wasting space on the server (it shouldn't waste bandwidth though).

Having these summaries is certainly a good idea for another reason.
Some years back we had 1 (solaris) nfs-server and several clients (linux 
boxes) and we regularly suffered archive corruption due to the combination 
of various bad technolies (no or bad locking, bad FS on solaris etc)
Suffice to say that if less files are read the curruption will definitely be 
less; and if corruption occurs these summaries can be recalculated anyway.

I think that is a good idea.

ps. before you say that corruption won't occur because files are written to 
only ones, my experience points out that its not that simple...

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Thomas Zander
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