<story><title>Casync – A tool for distributing file system images</title><url>http://0pointer.net/blog/casync-a-tool-for-distributing-file-system-images.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tkfu</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure I buy the embedded&amp;#x2F;IoT use case; OSTree is a really good model there and is more featureful. The &amp;quot;well, if your filesystem image delta happens to be in the form of a lot of very small files it&amp;#x27;s not so great for CDNs&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#x27;t strike me as a terribly good reason to give up everything OSTree gives you (especially with stuff like the meta-updater [1] Yocto integration).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;advancedtelematic&amp;#x2F;meta-updater&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;advancedtelematic&amp;#x2F;meta-updater&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Full disclosure: I work for Advanced Telematic, the creators and maintainers of the meta-updater Yocto layer.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Casync – A tool for distributing file system images</title><url>http://0pointer.net/blog/casync-a-tool-for-distributing-file-system-images.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dom0</author><text>If you read the internals description it could just as well be about Borg, very similar principles here, though the application is very different.&lt;p&gt;By the way, both buzhash and SHA-256 are kinda poor choices for a new system, especially one that targets servers.</text></comment>