[Maas-devel] Forward compatibility of subarches (was Re: Problems with the hwe work)

[Julian Edwards]

On 15/05/14 22:23, Gavin Panella wrote:
> Do we do complex joins against the BootImages table? If not, we could
> remove it from the region's database and instead ask the clusters for
> that information. 

I think ultimately this makes a lot of sense.  However we have the
infrastructure in place right now to store things in the region.

> The clusters are the database by virtue of having
> the files and the simplestreams index; BootImages is a cache, with the
> same problems as other caches.

They will be a lot less cache-like by the time this work lands as there
will be no reporting delay.