Coz if its a normal nfs share, two computers may decide to download the file at the same time. There was talk about how to handle this in the past.
Personally, I would still do it as it would be: 1. would be an occaisional occurrence only 2. the machines would error off if the file corrupts 3. only a few seconds by the admin and its fixed. Large scale installations (many PC's) would need some type of 404 handler: file not in cache, let the server go get it! BillK On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 21:19, Terry Churchill wrote: > My pet monkey insists that on Sep 23 2003 at 02:06PM > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> warbled: > > > Or, I share the single ../distfiles directory between all 13 computers, > > with all potential concurrency problems that would bring in to the soup. > > (Oh, what a nightmare that may become. ;-) > > How would this be a nightmare? It's exactly what I do here. You are only > sharing distfiles, not build locations or anything where having more than one > machine accessing it at a time would cause a problem. -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
