On 2010-03-28, at 9:13 AM, Elaine Ashton wrote: > On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:52 AM, Arthur Corliss wrote: > >> What you're overlooking is that CPAN has, and will, continue to grow. Even >> if you remove the cruft now at some point it might grow to the same size >> just with fresh files. When that happens, you're right back where you are >> now. Rsync can't cut it, it wasn't designed for this. > > And this is a good point to make, yes, it will continue to grow and I know > that the current manager(s) of nic.funet.fi have commented on the burden it > presents to the system which is also home to a number of other mirrors. You > cannot assume that the generosity and the resources of the mirror ops are > limitless and finding out where that limit lies will come too late to make > amends. > > Pruning back the archive is a good compromise until and unless another > solution can be done that will not bother the mirror ops terribly much in > terms of real work. > > e.
Has some sort of disk quota system for CPAN author accounts ever been considered? -- best regards, Randy
