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...ms to different file types without further changing the basic archive format or breaking compatibility with existing tools. The new tools and the virtual machine they are based on are more fully described in this paper (to appear in USENIX File and Storage Technologies next month): http://www.brynosaurus.com/pub/os/vxa.pdf http://www.brynosaurus.com/pub/os/vxa/ (HTML version) I've already integrated FLAC as an example media-type-specific compressor that the archiver can use automatically on WAV files it runs across, rather than futilely trying to run them through gzip or another general-pur...

...sync can easily recognize such directories and, if so configured by the user, automatically exclude them from transfers. (For example, via a new pair of rsync options, "--exclude-caches" and "--include-caches".) My preliminary write-up of the proposal is here: http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/ I'd greatly appreciate your feedback and ideas. I don't currently know of an appropriate place for open, "multicast" discussion of such a proposal, but let me know if you do - or I can set one up if there's interest. Thanks very much for your time! Bryan

...ts of "ignore everything". A protocol extension however seems inevitable and that is the point where my courage dropped, read: I was too afraid I could break rsync due to lack of understanding about the protocol. Would you consider adding according support? Christoph [*] http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html