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-*- 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/
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/