# from Geoffrey Broadwell
# on Thursday 25 March 2010 14:08:
>> Maybe CPAN mirrors are more easily updated than via a generic rsync?
>> Is the burden only network/cpu for checking whether a bunch of old
>> archives have changed, or does disk matter?
>
>Forgive a lurker, but wasn't that the point of this:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~andk/File-Rsync-Mirror-Recent-0.0.7/
>
>When I saw that announced, I remember thinking "Yay, large archive
> rsync problem solved!" Did it not work out?
It sounds like it has the tech solved. Now mirror admins just need to
know about it and how to use it.
The !!!! PRE-ALPHA ALERT !!!! in the documentation is may seem like a
big stop sign for potential users. But presumably we don't need to do
anything to PAUSE/the CPAN for admins to quicken their mirror
process -- just need some feedback, docs, and a frontend for it to gain
widespread use. Now it's just a simple matter of education. :-D
--Eric
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