Fresh Fedora 11 fetches 362MB+ of updates, where's deltaRPM?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Fri Jun 12 19:06:20 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> said:
> Correct but if they do mirror delta rpm's they would get higher I/O
> since clients would be fetching a series of smaller packages instead of
> bigger ones.

It may be slightly more I/O on the directories, but those mostly live in
the cache anyway.  It'll save I/O and bandwidth if they download less.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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