9 Sep
2005
9 Sep
'05
5:21 p.m.
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 08:32, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 08:54 -0400, William Hooper wrote:
Rsync only imposes that load the once or twice a month you sync, not every time a machine does a "yum update".
Exactly! He seems to also fail to understand that there is a significant "cost savings" for _all_ parties to rsync the YUM repository.
The only reason there is even a possible savings is that yum circumvents standard http/ftp caching practices by randomizing the source locations. Even then, you'd have to update a vast number of server-type machines to make up for the fact that rsync'ing the repository is going to pull copies of updates for a gazillion programs that no machine has installed.
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Les Mikesell
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