Re: Bugs and features

[Mark . Burgess]

> 4.    Big change! How about using the rsync algorithm for remote copies. I
> believe an rsync library is 
>       available. Either that, or simply use rsyncd as the server instead of
> cfd. Relegate cfd to be the 
>       remote invocation agent for cfrun only.
> 
> Regards,
> Frank Ranner

Just briefly:

Recent independent measurments showed that cfengine file copying
is faster than rsync, unless encryption is used .. which is madness
for most applications.

If you want to know more - come to LISA 2001!!

M

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