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by re 263 days ago
> doesn't rsync already use content-defined chunk boundaries, with a condition on the rolling hash to define boundaries?

No, it operates on fixed size blocks over the destination file. However, by using a rolling hash, it can detect those blocks at any offset within the source file to avoid re-transferring them.

https://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/node2.html