On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM, David Landgren <da...@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) -- "It is merely a matter of persistence." -- Albert Camus
