On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:41:00PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009, Thomas Lange wrote: > > No, not really. I did some performance tests in the past, and there were > > no real differences in the installation times. Sometimes http was slightly > > faster than NFS, but I think this was the cause of the NFS server. > > Interesting, thanks for the info.
well, nfs has the advantage of working with smaller /var partitions, as the packages do not have to be stored there between downloading and installing ;) ok, this is not so important anymore, as hard disks are bigger now than what our machines had in 2001. -- c u henning