Comment 3 for bug 701818

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Vish (vish) wrote :

Bah!! I was completely wrong.. (unless you guys secretly, magically updated testdrive with no version updates ;p )

The download amount does not match the ~700mb. The amount that had been downloaded was lesser .
I seem to have been mislead by how the two work differently.
Testdrive starting at 0% and the file size count starting at 0 is a bit confusing.
The reason this is misleading is, because, 0% --> 100% time will *never* be the same. Since it seems to be secretly syncing and then recording the percent complete of the file.

But it might be better if testdrive gave the actually amount of sync progress. (like how we notice in zsync.)
 This would give us a better estimate of the time left to sync rather than a sync which takes random amount of time.
Is this a limitation of rsync? And would it be fixed when we have this zsync option ?
Or should i file a separate bug requesting better sync progress reporting?