Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Preliminary Arch Cache available

[Aaron Bentley]

Miles Bader wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:48:36PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
> > > - option to cache each and every archive.
> >
> > Oh, but you don't usually want to cache local archives.  Maybe you'd 
> > specify "uncached:" for local archives, and otherwise, they'd be cached.
>
>
> Um, local archives usually have a filename instead of a pseudo-URL; can't you
> just notice that?

I'm just thinking on my feet here, but some apparently-local paths 
aren't actually local.  FUSE and LUFS, maybe even NFS or SMB over thin 
pipes.  You'd want those cached, even though they look local.

I suppose you could use cached: only for local filesystems you wanted to 
cache, but I doubt the uncached: would be a frequent problem; most 
people will have far more remote archives than local ones.

Aaron