- * Less memory is used in the file list (a per-file savings).
-
- * Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use
- allocation pools. This reduces memory use for large
- filesets and permits freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes
- (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe
- and the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to
- have the "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing
- messages from the receiver don't get lost on their way through
- the generator over to the sender (the latter mainly affected
- hard-link messages). (Wayne Davison)
-
- * The reading & writing of the file list in batch-mode is now
- handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over
- the wire. This makes it much easier to maintain.
-
- * Optimized the -x (--one-file-system) flag's handling of any
- mount-point directories we encounter (it no longer scans the
- contents of the mount-point dirs, just to throw away the data).
-
- * Improved the internal uid/gid code to be more portable and
- a little more optimized.
-
-\f
-NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004)
-Protocol: 27 (changed)
-Changes since 2.5.7: