[mirror-admin] rsync start faster?

[J.H.]

The newer versions of rsync do this, but you need (apparently) support
for this on both ends.  Kernel.org is slowly upgrading but we aren't
there yet (possibly - unless Fedora 8 has this in it, haven't checked
recently)

So you might want to check your version of rsync and take a look at
that.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 16:10 -0700, Scott Baker wrote:
> My server syncs the whole "enchilada" so to speak from kernel.org. This is 
> about 290,000 files according to rsync. I'm no rsync expert, but rsync 
> doesn't even start transferring files until it has a complete (290k) file 
> list. Wouldn't it make sense for it to transfer the files incrementally as 
> the come across in that list instead of WAITING 5+ minutes for the whole 
> file list to come across?
> 

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