Re: NFS vs. HTTP

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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

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