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<<On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:25:46 +0300 (EAT), <ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug> said:

> rdist is an interesting approach for keeping multiple machine upto date.

Unfortunately (and I can speak from experience) rdist's protocol is
fairly brain-dead and runs in lock-step, thus dramatically bloating
the time it takes to do even a null update on a large file set.  If
there were another option that did what rdist does, I'd switch in an
instant.

-GAWollman


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