Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Registered and official names

[Aaron Bentley]

James Blackwell wrote:

> > > With mirroring, I have a guarantee that, at the time of mirroring, I
> > > have everything that is in the archive that I'm mirroring. 
> > >
> > > Would read caching make the same guarantees?

> > I most certainly don't want my cache 
> > to be a mirror.  

> > That said, the implementation would probably be a mirror variant, so it 
> > probably wouldn't be too hard to make archive-mirror work with caches.

> I must be misreading you. Didn't you say "we wouldn't need local
> mirrors?" As in, 'do this caching thing, and now nobody needs a local
> mirror any more' 

I was being self-centered.  I use a local mirror for download reduction, 
not disconnected operation.

For me, a cache would provide
1. download reduction
2. writethrough

For you, it would provide
1. disconnected operation
2. writethrough (when connected).

You'd have to treat it like a mirror though, to ensure you were up to date.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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