CDC File Transfer
CDC File Transfer Born from the ashes of Stadia, this repository contains tools for syncing and streaming files from Windows to Windows or Linux. The tools are based on Content Defined Chunking (CDC), in particular FastCDC, to split up files into chunks. History At Stadia, game developers had access to Linux cloud instances to run games. Most developers wrote their games on Windows, though. Therefore, they needed a way to make them available on the remote Linux instance. As developers had SSH access to those instances, they could use scp to copy the game content. However, this was impractical, especially with the shift to working from home during the pandemic with sub-par internet connections. scp always copies full files, there is no “delta mode” to copy only the things that changed, it…
