On Mar 14, 2005, Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed there are serveral approaches to this problem, all with their
upsides and downsides. I'm currently treating the cpio archive as one
big file, and you're probably right -- treating it a file system may
yield better results.
I doubt it. In several cases, files get packaged in different
directories or have names changed because of a version change, and
then per-file deltas or rsync of individual files won't save you
anything, but rsync of the entire archive will be able to pick up the
unchanging bits.
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