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The obvious question - now or later?
Authored by: sjonke on Jul 16, '02 10:18:34AM

The obvious question is, is it a good idea to mount a large update like this remotely and then run the updater from it or is that going to be worse/slower/use-more-bandwidth than just downloading the entire image and mounting it then?



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The obvious question - now or later?
Authored by: chmod007 on Jul 16, '02 01:41:50PM

It depends, really. It depends on how the programs you use on the files were written - if they keep files in memory or read them again or again. At the recent WWDC, Apple emphasized that developers should use the disk sparingly, as it could reside on a network with slow performance.

For most applications it probably doesn't matter. Its probably best to download the dmg if you are going to use most of its contents...I haven't done a lot of testing, so you may have to experiment some to find the optimal working pattern.



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