Hello Mirror Owners,
rsync on the official rsync mirror (rsync.repo.almalinux.org) has been
updated to 3.2.3 with xxHash support. This means that rsync w/xxhash is
now available for consumption by all mirrors.
The upstream rsync version available in EL8 (currently 3.1.3) is too old to
support xxHash so we've made available a backported RPM from CentOS 9
Stream with xxHash support compiled. rsync 3.2.3-9.el8.1 is available at
http://repo.almalinux.org/backports/8/x86_64/rsync/. It depends on the
xxhash-libs package from EPEL.
If your mirror is on EL8 you can easily update to this version of rsync
with the following commands:
yum -y install epel-release
curl http://repo.almalinux.org/backports/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
--output /etc/yum.repos.d/almalinux-backports-rsync.repo
yum -y update rsync
No further action is required and your mirror will now sync from
rsync.repo.almalinux.org using the xxHash algorithm.
xxHash is a great improvement to rsync as it provides faster, more CPU
efficient hashing allowing higher transfer rates to be obtained.
There is a good article about rsync+xxhash and benchmarks available at
https://community.centminmod.com/threads/custom-rsync-3-2-3-rpm-builds-with…
--
Jonathan Wright
AlmaLinux Foundation
Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>
