Zsync for Packages files

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Max Bowsher 

| 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?

You'll need to get quite a lot of small files, which means you get hit
by TCP's slow start algorithm again and again rather than just grabbing
one big file once.

pdiffs are a big win if you're on a slow link, but if your link is
DSL-like, less so and very, very bad if your connection to the mirror is
a gbit one.

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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are