On 02/26/13 14:55, Philip Brown wrote:
On 02/26/13 12:39 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
Again, HTTP is not the optimal transport option. The best transport
option remains local file repositories or file repositories accessed
via NFS.
You might wanna share that with the OpsCenter group inside of Oracle, then.
They offer no option to configure a client that way (as far as I can see).
They only do http.
Well, it's difficult if you want to proxy access to multiple sources
that could be a mix of both file and HTTP(S) repositories.
But I'd provide that feedback to them as they should be aware of the
capabilities of pkg(5).
Speaking of which, though... how does IPS do anything different for
"local file repositories", since regular pkg servers are also specified
through "Http" type urls?
Repositories accessed via 'file:///' scale better because NFS and local
disk access are all in-kernel. But most importantly, in those cases,
the client won't (and doesn't need to) create a local copy of retrieved
data in /var/pkg/publisher/$name/file so there's significantly less
read/write I/O.
-Shawn
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