On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:19:11PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > How about rsync over ssh, does that cause more of a performance hit? > > I'm not apposed to opening up rsync to public release of "stuff" on the server, > if the desire is there, the performance hit is not too great, etc... I can't speak to the performance issues because I haven't done much with rsync servers of my own, but the it sure seems like you could save a lot of bandwidth. Its really annoying to download an iso by ftp and then have the md5 sum not check out. So then you have to download the whole thing again. Plus with rsync, you can do neat things like the Debian pseudo-image kit [1], which let you put together custom CDs if you have a local mirror, instead of having to re-download everything in the form of an image. 1. http://cdimage.debian.org/~costar/pseudo-image-kit/ -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org Cookies are tasty! |Free Dmitry Sklyarov - http://freesklyarov.org/