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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:45:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        <ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug>
Cc:        <security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Vendors For WU-FTPD Please Read
Message-ID:  <200111201945.fAKJjP038014@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111202023100.28220-100000@sanyu1.sanyutel.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111201104060.988-100000@ruby.ccmr.cornell.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111202023100.28220-100000@sanyu1.sanyutel.com>

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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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