[CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Tue Dec 18 04:29:17 UTC 2007


On Monday, December 17, 2007 7:05 PM -0800 Robert Arkiletian 
<robark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your
> 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of
> bandwidth.

That surprises me. Won't similar RPM's in the two images likely be at 
different offsets in the iso? Can rsync deal with that? I didn't realize it 
could handle shifted differences.





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