On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 21:52, Mitchell James wrote:
> Is there a way to set-up an intelligent mirror.  One that downloads 
> requested files only.
> 
> The information systems people moved around mount points on the system 
> that I maintain a local mirror for work causeing the mirror to start 
> reloading every file.  A major amount of data.  Which in turn took all 
> of network firewall bandwidth.  IS had a fit and shutdown the whole 
> subnet trying to find the offending server.
> 
> The whole mirror is unnecessary for our use.  It would be much lower 
> bandwidth if only the files asked for ( a small subset of the total) 
> were all that was mirrored.
> 
> Mitchell James
> 
> 
Here is a link in the forums for just what you are looking for
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110973&highlight=partial+mirror
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