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Re: suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Jul 21 17:12:33 1994
To: Matt Braun <mhbraun@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Michael Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 21 Jul 94 17:03:42 -0400.
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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 17:11:45 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Well, Matt beat me to it, but...
Mike, I think an srvd-like-thing is the best solution. In fact, we
were discussing it about a year ago (we being linux-dev), but since we
didn't have an NFS server at the time, we decided that it wouldn't be
a good way to do things, yet. Now, IMHO, it is.
Here is the way I envisioned it. We set up an srvd, which contains
the most recent binaries. We can provide package configurations, and
users can decide which packages to synctree (or something similar)
onto their local disk. It's not a hard thing.
As for running over 56k links, you have to suck the data over at some
point *anyways*, so whether you suck it over as a tarfile or in a
synctree really isn't much of a difference. (Well, this isn't
_totally_ true, but disregard the compression for now).
So, you see, this is really the best way to distribute binaries and
also provice Athena services to users with small hard disks!
Just my $.02!
-derek
