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| author | Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> | 2022-02-04 12:21:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> | 2022-02-04 12:21:18 +0000 |
| commit | 6457dd4d9ed35762685b18be74712101a1be5287 (patch) | |
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Add a bit to the design in the README
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@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ facilitate things like tagging the narinfos and doing garbage collection like tasks. Plus, because the narinfos are quite small, I believe storing them in a database is actually more performant and efficient than storing them as files on the filesystem, even with the -duplication that comes with the database schema being used. +duplication that comes with the database schema being used. It's also +easier to copy all the narinfos between machines when you can download +a single "database", rather than copying the files individually. Secondly, while tools like NGinx work great as a reverse proxy for the nar files, proxying the requests for the narinfo files can be |