Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:23:24 +0100 |
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:35:22PM +0100, Benoit Poulot-Cazajous wrote: >> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes: >> >> > the usual problem, and the reason we need a sequence number (increased >> > before and after the repo update). A file lock not. >> >> Or a file that contains md5sums of the other files in the tree. >> After the rsync, you recompute the md5sums file, and if it does not match, >> rsync again. As a bonus feature, the md5sums file can be pgp-signed. > > agreed, this would work too and it has the advantage of working with the > mirrors too as far as the per-file updates are atomic (should always be > the case). This has the only disavanage of forcing the client and the > server to read all file contents (I normally don't rsync with -c).
This is not necessary, you only need to recompute the md5sums of changed files.
Andreas.
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