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Date:      Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:41:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: idea/help w. mirroring
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812151640290.27793-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981215133403.jdp@polstra.com>

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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, John Polstra wrote:

> On 15-Dec-98 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, John Polstra wrote:
> >> Something like that would also be useful to reduce the load on
> >> primary CVSup server hosts such as freefall.
> > 
> > anything dealing with deltas would work much fast with this. 
> 
> For cvsupd, I actually don't need much detail.  I just need to know
> whenever a file in the repository has been touched or created.  A hook
> into CVS is one solution.  But repositories tend to get modified by
> back-door means every now and then.

Either would be great, walking and comparing directory trees to mirror is
terrible, just notification of a change would be great.  Being able to see
which logical blocks were changed would be even better.

Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
-- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD.
-- http://www.freebsd.org/                        3.0-current

> John
> ---
>   John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
>   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
>   "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
>                                                             -- H. L. Mencken
> 


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