Zsync for Packages files

Lars Wirzenius lars at ubuntu.com
Sat Jul 18 09:03:23 BST 2009


pe, 2009-07-17 kello 18:13 +0100, Max Bowsher kirjoitti:
> Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > I have not compared zsync with pdiffs. Ubuntu does not use pdiffs
> > because it generates Packages files every hour, and it seems that ruins
> > the usability of pdiffs.
> 
> That's interesting - I would have thought that it would simply lead to
> many small pdiff files being created, but the system overall still
> working fine. How is the usability damaged?

I don't know the reason, I'm repeating hearsay, sorry.





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