On Mar 29, 2010, at 12:57 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > > My understanding is that CPAN::Mini is aimed more at end-users who want > to have CPAN-onna-(memory)-stick or on a laptop. Back in 2004, > dedicating 1.2GB of laptop space was rather more significant than it is > now - my laptop at the time had something like 30GB, and that had to > include the OS and all my mp3s. A CPAN-onna-stick was very useful at > hackathons and on train journeys.
True, but we're still relying on the same technology to do the job today as back then. Given that rsync isn't going to be reinvented terribly soon, the size and number of files will continue to be an issue unless a compromise can be made with regard to trimming it back a bit. We could do some really interesting things with zfs and snapshots, but zfs isn't widely available and it would require reconfiguration and time commitment from the mirror ops which is a considerably higher barrier to entry than rsync is presently. e.
