http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/11/26/npm-post-mortem/
> Move attachments out of CouchDB: Work has begun to move the package tarballs > out of > CouchDB and into Joyent's Manta service. Additionally, MaxCDN has generously > offered to > provide CDN services for npm, once the tarballs are moved out of the registry > database. > This will help improve delivery speed, while dramatically reducing the file > system I/O load on > the CouchDB servers. Work is progressing slowly, because at each stage in the > plan, we are > making sure that current replication users are minimally impacted. I wonder is it CouchDB non-optimal I/O and/or can 769 issue fix it? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-769 There is alpha-patch attached. May be it's good time to push it forward? What things are left for it? -- ,,,^..^,,,
