[chef-dev] Re: 5/14 Opscode Code Review

[Brad Knowles < >]

On May 14, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Bryan McLellan wrote:

> CHEF-3045: We lazy load a number of objects, like cookbook files and
> templates. Access to these objects can time out if they're store
> somewhere like S3. Should we download these objects right away by
> default? For long Chef runs this has the benefit of moving a number of
> potential failures to the beginning of the run. Thoughts?

Is it possible to keep the default set the way it is, but to allow those who 
need it to switch the default to optimistic loading?  If not, can we have a 
method of specifying which object(s) might need to be loaded early?

It seems to me that the current default is almost always the right choice, 
but as you have observed there are times when it may not work out so well.  
I'm just trying to help identify relatively easy ways where we can have our 
cake and eat it too.  ;-)

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