>It only *looks* like it downloads everything again -- this is purely a
>misleading display issue that we're hoping to improve at a future point.
It did take a reasonable amount of time. Not less than downloading the
first time, but I can't be sure. The ips server is local, though.
>What happens is that the transport system iterates through all the
>content needed for the operation, verifies that it's valid, and then
>skips the download for the file because it already has the content.
>
>If you actually snoop network traffic, you'll see it doesn't actually
>download all the files again.
>>> I think you're confused about what I've said here. And no, the data is
>>> intentionally stored by digest and not by its original name. It would
>>> neither be practical, nor efficient to store the files in the repository
>>> by their delivered name. The size of the /dev repository is currently
>>> around 63.6G and growing...
>>
>> A hardlink doesn't cost (much) of additional storage.
>
>Since files are retrieved by digest, there's no reason to cache them by
>any other means.
But it would be useful.
Casper
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