On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 22:20 -0600, John Pierce wrote:
> > Try this:
> > just symlink or mount the packages subdir into nfs. packages are fine
> > in nfs, sqlite db files, not as much.
> >
> Ok, symlinking did not work, I did the following for the symlink:
>
> ln -s /video2/f8/cache /var/cache/yum
>
> That made an ls /var/cache/yum show me the repo directories just like
> looking at the original /var/cache/yum.
>
> You lost me though with this "mount the packages subdir into nfs", I have been
> using linux for about 9 years and I learn something new everyday.
>
> Do you mean to export the cache dir directly and then mount
> ns1:/video2/f8/cache /var/cache/yum or
> something entirely different?
okay a yum cache is separated per repo:
/var/cache/yum/[reponame]
then under there there are subdirs:
/var/cache/yum/[reponame]/packages
I was saying just export and mount the packages subdir via nfs - not the
whole cache hierarchy.
That way the heavy part of the download you're taking care of.
-sv
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