Re: thoughts on rsync..

Graham Forest <[email protected]> 03 Sep 2003 09:25:46 -0700
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For something like a 486, just about anything is going to take forever.
A snapshot tarball likely would be the most practical method.

About sync limiting, I'm not heavily for or against it. I tend to prefer
the trust-their-judgement method more, but sync limiting would be such a
trivial hack.

Graham

On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 01:20, Jesse Nelson wrote:
> was reading gentoo-dev and they have a thread about someone on a 486
> trying to emerge sync. I guess this guy was taking 20hrs to sync. Anyhow
> it came up about ppl syncing all the time.. would it make sense for the
> packagemanager to have a soft limit of successfull syncs in a certian
> time ( configurable of course )=20
>=20
> dunno just a thought..=20
>=20
> --
> Brooke's Law: Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn
> fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it
> beyond recognition.
>=20
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