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authorWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2010-03-27 12:05:01 -0700
committerWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2010-03-27 12:05:01 -0700
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-*- indented-text -*-
-Notes towards a new version of rsync
+Notes towards a new version of rsync
Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>, September 2001.
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Bad things about the current implementation:
hard to modify/extend
- Both the program and the protocol assume a single non-interactive
- one-way transfer
+ one-way transfer
- A list of all files are held in memory for the entire transfer,
which cripples scalability to large file trees
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Protocol philosophy:
Questionable features:
- These are neat, but not necessarily clean or worth preserving.
+ These are neat, but not necessarily clean or worth preserving.
- The remote rsync can be wrapped by some other program, such as in
tridge's rsync-mail scripts. The general feature of sending and
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Desirable features:
These don't really require architectural changes; they're just
something to keep in mind.
-
+
- Synchronize ACLs and extended attributes
- Anonymous servers should be efficient
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Desirable features:
Alternatively, as long as transfers are idempotent, we can just
restart the whole thing. [NFSv4]
- - Scripting support.
+ - Scripting support.
- Propagate atimes and do not modify them. This is very ugly on
Unix. It might be better to try to add O_NOATIME to kernels, and
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Scripting hooks:
- What basis file to use
- Logging
-
+
- Whether to allow transfers (for public servers)
- Authentication
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ Pie-in-the-sky features:
These might have a severe impact on the protocol, and are not
clearly in our core requirements. It looks like in many of them
- having scripting hooks will allow us
+ having scripting hooks will allow us
- Transport over UDP multicast. The hard part is handling multiple
destinations which have different basis files. We can look at
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ In favour of using a new protocol:
- If we start from scratch, it can be documented as we go, and we
can avoid design decisions that make the protocol complex or
- implementation-bound.
+ implementation-bound.
Error handling:
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ Concurrency:
- We can do nonblocking network IO, but not so for disk.
- It makes sense to on the destination be generating signatures and
- applying patches at the same time.
+ applying patches at the same time.
- Can structure this with nonblocking, threads, separate processes,
etc.
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ Uses:
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/00jul/00july-133.htm#P24510_1276764
- Sync with PDA
-
+
- Network backup systems
- CVS filemover
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ Filesystem migration:
Atomic updates:
The NFSv4 working group wants atomic migration. Most of the
- responsibility for this lies on the NFS server or OS.
+ responsibility for this lies on the NFS server or OS.
If migrating a whole tree, then we could do a nearly-atomic rename
at the end. This ties in to having separate basis and destination
@@ -427,11 +427,11 @@ Atomic updates:
There's no way in Unix to replace a whole set of files atomically.
However, if we get them all onto the destination machine and then do
- the updates quickly it would greatly reduce the window.
+ the updates quickly it would greatly reduce the window.
Scalability:
-
+
We should aim to work well on machines in use in a year or two.
That probably means transfers of many millions of files in one
batch, and gigabytes or terabytes of data.
@@ -466,4 +466,4 @@ Related work:
- http://freshmeat.net/search/?site=Freshmeat&q=mirror&section=projects
- BitTorrent -- p2p mirroring
- http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ \ No newline at end of file
+ http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/