Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync restartability [was, Re: summit photos]

[Thomas Keller]

Timothy Brownawell schrieb:
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 06:04 +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:50:49AM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote:
>>> I also have one at 204.152.190.23:4692
>> (you'll need to use your keys)
> 
> /me notes that multi-hundred-MB revisions make netsync's restartability
> not work so well.
> 
> Maybe when sending fulltexts or really large diffs, we want there to be
> a way for the sender to ask before sending, in case the receiver might
> already have it from an interrupted sync?
> 

I'd second the request for a "resume" functionality here. One could mark
a certain partially downloaded file delta as "unfinished" (and does the
same with the revision as well). Maybe partial pull will bring something
along like this... in the end this will probably rewrite the current
netsync code quite a bit anyways...

Thomas.

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