> I would think it could be useful in non-mod_perl applications as well > - you give an example of a user's mailbox. With scp it might be even > more fun to have around :) (/me is thinking of config files and > such)
mod_perl works very well with the system for keeping track of what boxes are down, sizes of partitions and the like. However, a simple daemon would do about the same thing for say non-web based mail stuff. When I release I will likely have a daemon version as well as the mod_perl version, just using Net::Server. > What's a `very large amount of data' ? We use it for tens of thousands of files, but most of those are small, and they certainly are all small on the 3 GB range. That is sort of the model for dirsync I think. Lots of small files in lots of different directories. > Our NIS maps are on the order > of 3 GB per file (>64k users). Man, that is one big file. Guess dropping a note to this list sorta lets you know what you have to really scale to. Sounds like dirsync could use rsync if Rob makes a couple changes. Can't believe the file couldn't be broken up into smaller files. 3 GB for 64k users doesn't scale so hot for say a million users, but I have no idea about NIS maps, so there you go. Earl
