Using zsync for .deb downloads: initial benchmark results

Lars Wirzenius lars at ubuntu.com
Sat Jul 18 09:05:06 BST 2009


pe, 2009-07-17 kello 11:10 -0400, Martin Owens kirjoitti:
> But I have no idea how feasible automatic deltas are, workloads on
> generating them etc.

Computing the delta for a large file is going to be pretty slow, and in
any case, it's going to require centralizing the server rather than have
a distributed mirror network, unless I'm very mistaken. This does not
sound feasible. But I would love to be proven wrong.





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