On 10. 4. 2013 at 10:53:25, John.Florian(a)dart.biz wrote:
> From: seth vidal <skvidal(a)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