On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Andy Armstrong wrote:
We're nearly there if A == a CPAN::Mini style mirror, B == the current mirror
pruned and C == backpan.
So the actions to make that happen are:
* give the current clients specific support for this
* generate a master mini mirror that other mini mirrors can pull from.
* prune
If we agree that this is a good solution I'm happy to do some work on it - I
could host the mini master and I'd be happy to send Andreas a patch for CPAN.pm
to support this scheme.
It should be pointed out that this is only viable under the assumption that
you have a separate pool of servers for each tier. Again, this is just
load balancing, not load optimization.
That said, if you have the volunteers, then why not. Perhaps I can offer a
system to support mirroring up here in Alaska.
--Arthur Corliss
Live Free or Die
