[OT] How to serve apt. http vs nfs

[Henning Glawe]

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. 

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henning