Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air

[Andreas Schwab]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:35:22PM +0100, Benoit Poulot-Cazajous wrote:
>> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> 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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