Hi,
* I currently have my fai installed sources.list pointing to a file:/
location mounted by nfs.
I remember from my diskless terminal experience that nfs did send some
packages and thus use the network even if no information was sent. Isn't
it?
However apt-get does not download files but only
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Adrian Gibanel Lopez wrote:
> How do you serve your repositories? What's your policy about it?
I never used nfs as apt mirror location. Http seems easy and never
caused any trouble.
Henning
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Hi,
I also only use apt via http, usually with squid as a proxy.
I do this, due the ease of setup and because I can use http everywhere. Using
nfs is faster though: with http, the .debs get first downloaded (and written)
to /var/cache/apt/archives and then are unpacked, while if you use nfs (o
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:58:11 +0100, Holger Levsen
> said:
> Using nfs is faster though:
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 cau
Hi Thomas,
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, t
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
