Re: [Zsync-users] Performance on large files > 7GB.

[Colin P. <cp...@mo...>]

To follow up with some results from my investigation over the weekend:

I think that zsync 0.6.2 will perform fine on files of this size if you
override the blocksize when generating the .zsync: -b 65536 should work.
(rsync chooses a similarly large blocksize by default on such files.)
Compressing with gzip --rsync probably works too but I did not try that.

I have identified two significant problems that were harming zsync's
performance which will be fixed in the next release. With these changes,
zsync on my computer can sync a 24G disk image in 15m which is similar to
rsync (compared to 0.6.2 taking 6 hours for the same). It was an interesting
investigation :-)

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Colin Phipps <cp...@mo...>