On Mar 14, 2005, Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Indeed there are serveral approaches to this problem, all with their > upsides and downsides. I'm currently treating the cpio archive as one > big file, and you're probably right -- treating it a file system may > yield better results. I doubt it. In several cases, files get packaged in different directories or have names changed because of a version change, and then per-file deltas or rsync of individual files won't save you anything, but rsync of the entire archive will be able to pick up the unchanging bits. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
