On Mar 25, 2010, at 13:23, Eric Wilhelm 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?
Most CPAN mirrors use rsync. It's not realistic to make them change that
("Hello all mirror operators -- so that tool that you use for ALL YOUR MIRRORS;
well ... maybe you can use something else for us?").
rsync is all disk i/o -- relatively negligible network and CPU.
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