On Mar 25, 2010, at 14:08, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: >> 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?
Yes - we use that for some/most of the central mirrors; but the other several thousand mirrors don't use it (for various good reasons). It also (currently) doesn't support tiered mirrors; and it's not used for "CPAN"; only for the "PAUSE data" -- again for various good reasons. - ask
