rsync or cvsup?

[Ken Smith]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:27:10PM +0200, Daniel Lang wrote:
> Dan Langille wrote on Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:23:22AM -0400:
> > cvsup.nz.freebsd.org is being replaced.  We are trying to set up the 
> > new box now.
> > 
> > At present, it cvsup's from cvsup-master.freebsd.org.  Is the latest 
> > thinking to use rsync or cvsup?
> [..]
> 
> CVSup. For the CVS-Repo use cvsup. I didn't even know that
> rsync was offered on cvsup-master....
> 

It's not.  :-)

You can choose between cvsup/rsync for mirroring the FTP site.  On
ftp-master.freebsd.org we do prefer people use CVSup if possible because
it is less of a memory hog than rsync is.  Peter was right about the
size (it's gone up since then) though we do allow 8 connects, not 1. ;-)

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