October 2011
1 post
Rsync internals
I’m officially back from a two month blogging hiatus. A few weeks ago, I got really curious about how rsync works and decided to dig deeper.
The objective of the rsync algorithm is to minimize the amount of data that needs to be sent over the wire in order to sync two versions of a file. The algorithm assumes sender has the latest version and we want to override the version on the...