On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 15:54 Gerald B. Cox <gb...@bzb.us> wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Zchunk_Metadata > > It appears to be a good idea, but when going through the readme, I found > this: > > *Please note that, while the code is pretty reliable and the file format > shouldn't see any further changes, the API is still not fixed. Please do > not use zchunk for any mission-critical systems yet.* > > I would consider DNF to be a mission critical system. Shouldn't we wait > until zchunk is deemed > ready? I don't understand how it is OK to use this for DNF, but it isn't > OK for > "any mission-critical systems". >
I would say that DNF must do proper fallback in which case if zchunk fails, DNF falls back to downloading full metadata. However, DNF does that do any out-of-process metadata handling which might crash it entirely (but I think we can fix such issues quickly). -- -Igor Gnatenko
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