Zsync for ubuntu isos.

John McCabe-Dansted gmatht at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 14:56:22 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 7:51 PM, (``-_-ยดยด) -- Fernando
<ubuntu at bugabundo.net> wrote:
>  Yeah, been seeing that for a few days.
>  MAIN (cdimage.ubuntu.com) is really heavy loaded, and rsync times out with that lovely and totally CLEAR message.
>  I guess I should report that as a bug, so that future versions print correct messages to the user.

This wouldn't be an issue with zsync :)
So. Zsync uses less server cpu (in this case making zsync more
reliable than rsync)
as  also mentioned before zsync seems to also use less bandwidth.

Does rsync have any advantage over zsync for Ubuntu isos?

FYI, I have put zsyncs for 7.10 up at:
    http://mccabedj.ucc.asn.au/ccache/

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia




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