Re: NFS vs. HTTP

[Jim Wildman <jim rossberry com>]

wget...of course.  Hadn't thought of that.  You just converted me.

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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE                                jim rossberry com
http://www.rossberry.com

On 29 Jan 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 14:04, Jim Wildman wrote:
> > 1) As far as I can tell, if you don't use nfs for the kickstart file, it
> > is not automatically available to you in the %post section.  
> > 
> 
> this is true in 7.3 - I think they put the nfs modules back in for
> phoebe.
> 
> I just use http or https via wget for %posts anyway - makes things fast
> 
> > 2) Speed.  Apparent anyway.  I have not measured it.
> 
> umm http can be MUCH faster - especially on a partially loaded or noisy
> network.
> 
> tcp can really make up for the speed differences.
> 
> 
> I've switched entirely to http-based installs and %posts b/c it's just
> cleaner - mainly b/c it means I can do an install from anywhere that can
> reach an http server - which is typically trivial to make happen.
> 
> -sv
> 
>