Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

2010-04-02 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:50, Arthur Corliss wrote: And my assertion has been that the excessive stats by the server are a bigger impediment to synchronization than the inode count. Well, then one of us don't understand how file systems etc work. :-)

Re: Distributing the CPAN

2010-04-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Apr 2, 2010, at 14:03, Tim Bunce wrote: > Imagine a cpan-all 'superproject' repro that has all the distros as > submodules. This repro would be tiny when cloned because it only > contains empty directories for the distos plus the metadata for where > the upstream distro repro lives and what t

Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

2010-04-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:50, Arthur Corliss wrote: > And my assertion has been that the excessive stats by the server are a bigger > impediment to synchronization than the inode count. Well, then one of us don't understand how file systems etc work. :-) - ask

Re: Distributing the CPAN

2010-04-02 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 01:16:58AM +0200, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2010, at 16:50, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > * The need for widespread mirroring is less significant than it was in > > years past. (Also using git as the inter-mirror transport of source files > > means there'll be much le