On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:53:25 -0400 john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: > > From: seth vidal <skvi...@fedoraproject.org> > > > > The metadata doesn't get downloaded if it hasn't changed - the > > problem though is that the metadata DOES change often. Normally > > everyday. > > Is there anything that could be done to make it unnecessary to pull > the complete metadata for every update? For example, IIRC this is > all sqlite data, but what if this was in a plain-text data dump form > where something like rsync could be used to efficiently transfer only > those bits that have changed. Client CPU time to reconstruct the DB > is probably cheaper than the bandwidth. Maybe such a mode would only > be used if the DB size exceeded some threshold. >
You'll have to talk to those folks who are trying to work on a delta metadata format. And rsync is not efficient from a bunch of clients to a mirror server. It would cripple a mirror server in a moment. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
