Once upon a time, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter(a)gmail.com> said:
The benefit of zchunked rpms is that, when downloading an updated
rpm,
you would only need to download the chunks that have changed from
what's on your system.
How well do web servers and caches handle range requests? I haven't
really paid attention to range requests in a long time; at one point
IIRC mirrors would often disable them because of "download accelerators"
that would open multiple connections to download parts of the same ISO
in parallel (hogging server resources).
--
Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>