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What does this have to do with TCP being reliable?



If TCP was reliable enough, then these chuncked transfers wouldn't need to be used


These chunked transfers are used to efficiently sync only the changed parts of the file. The actual network traffic is still over TCP. You're conflating several layers and abstractions.




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