> Moreover we could provide zfs snapshot not of the repository but > "/var/pkg/download/" directory with most of the files for updates and > if someone had other application installed only those bits would be > downloaded, so there would be much less network traffic.
Dan and I have talked about something like this for Zones, since it would be ideal to use the global zone's content cache to populate other zones, where appropriate. Neither one of us has had much time to do any work on this, since we've both been busy with other tasks. When we last discussed this, we realized that we need to implement some kind of cache maintenance policy. (How long do things stay in here, when should we remove them, etc.) We also wanted to figure out where the download cache should live, so that we can always find it. One idea was to have a separate ZFS filesystem, similar to your idea above. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
