On Oct 30, 2004, "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm going to assume that you mean "1GB" (as in gigabyte) since I have no > idea what a "Go" is. Giga-octet. You know, bytes don't have to have 8 bits. French is more precise than English, at least in this regard. > That being said, one of the beauties of rsync is > that it will *not* need to reread the entire file Not quite. Both ends will have to reread the entire file, possibly even twice. They won't have to *transfer* the entire file, but for a mirror, disk bandwidth may also be a critical resource. Still, it would be no different from the current situation, in which a package is first published unsigned, and some time next day (or a few days later :-) a signature is stapled to it. -- 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}