LiveCD test image available, please test

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed Oct 20 00:55:19 UTC 2004


On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:21:31PM -0400, volvoguy wrote:

> I've been using rsync for some of the other ISO images, and it works
> great. For this type of image with a date in it, is rsync still
> appropriate? How would it be used? Does rsync care what the filename
> is if you're telling it to update imageone.iso with the contents of
> imagetwo.iso?
> 
> I prefer saving my bandwidth and yours whenever possible. The fact
> that it's only replacing files that have been changed usually makes it
> a little quicker too. :-)

The live CD doesn't benefit significantly from rsync, because most of its
data is stored in one big compressed file.

-- 
 - mdz




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