On 10. 4. 2013 at 10:53:25, john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: > > From: seth vidal <skvi...@fedoraproject.org> > > > > The metadata doesn't get downloaded if it hasn't changed - the problem > > though is that the metadata DOES change often. Normally everyday. > > Is there anything that could be done to make it unnecessary to pull the > complete metadata for every update? For example, IIRC this is all sqlite > data, but what if this was in a plain-text data dump form where something > like rsync could be used to efficiently transfer only those bits that have > changed. Client CPU time to reconstruct the DB is probably cheaper than > the bandwidth. Maybe such a mode would only be used if the DB size > exceeded some threshold.
Adding Zdenek to CC, as he is already working on a proposal to reduce metadata download size. Thanks Jan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
