Re: sysinstall v2

[ibotty <bsd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Well... technically, rsync attempts to only copy the parts that have
> changed, and it's usually pretty good at *not* copying the whole file
> unless it really has to.

yes, it splits each file into small(er) chunks. each of them gets a hash.
when one of those hashes on the remote host is different from yours, it
downloads only this chunk.
it gets really fast and uses low bandwidth.

i regard rsync as a really nice piece of work.

~ibotty