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On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:40:08 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the 'master' |
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> server share the distfiles dir via NFS? |
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No reason at all, I've been doing it for years without a single |
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problem. |
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> So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit of |
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> NFS-sharing vs HTTP-sharing? The scenario is back-end LAN at the |
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> office, thus, a trusted network by definition. |
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The benefit is that everything is centralised. With an HTTP proxy, you |
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still have to download from the server to each client. The only drawback |
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that I experience is that if several packages use the same, large source |
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file, as so many of the KDE packages do, you are repeatedly pulling the |
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same file over the network, which is a little slower. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Keyboard: (n.) a device used by programmers to write software for a mouse |
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or joystick and by operators for playing games such as 'word processing.' |
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