Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

[Eakin, Lee]

Much of this discussion is beyond my depth but in terms of keeping it
simple, and trying to limit the stat calls on the upstream servers,
what about DNS as a replication model?  You could break up the tree at
logical divisions similar to zones and assign them serial numbers
(say a .serial file) and then still use rsync, but broken up into modules to
avoid recursion into sub-trees where the serial number is up to date?
The rsyncd.conf could be published also so replicas use the same
include/exclude logic.
-lee