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From:
David Landgren
Date:
November 23, 2010 13:24
Subject:
Re: Reducing rsync cost
Message ID:
4CEC3102.1080807@landgren.net
On 22/11/2010 15:18, David Nicol wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM, David Landgren<david@landgren.net> wrote:
>> Yeah, this is the killer. In an ideal world, we would kill the symlinks such
>> as authors/id/*, modules/by-category/*, modules/by-module/* and so on. These
>> could be recreated via shell scripts locally on mirrors for people who wish
>> to maintain these legacies. Cutting that out would diminish the rsync burden
>> considerably.
>>
>> David
>
> or re-engineer CPAN as a sqlite+FTSE database, and re-engineer the
> mirroring process as a database mirror via a TBD compact database diff
> protocol (I have no intention of doing any of this myself; good
> morning)
Well... I guess that's not going to happen then, is it?
I shouldn't even bother replying, but I wouldn't want the archives to
think that silence indicates tacit agreement.
David
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