InstantMirror Project: Google Summer of Code 2009

[Warren Togami]

Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On Wed, March 18, 2009 8:53 pm, Warren Togami wrote:
>> Ed Swierk wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> The original InstantMirror certainly has its limitations, but in its
>>> defense I would point out that it's survived a couple of years of
>>> constant use as the default Fedora repo at my company, with zero
>>> maintenance (I'm not even sure where the machine hosting it has
>>> gone...).
>> Wow, you are using it despite the lack of cleanup?  You don't run out of
>>   disk space?
> 
> I use it to.  Wrote a simple script that uses rsync to cleanup.  Only need
> to run it a couple times a year.  Disk space is cheap, and you really
> don't need that much when you no longer mirror all of the game data you
> don't need.

The lack of cleanup was only one problem.  Another was it did not handle 
multiple users using it simultaneously.

> 
>> Do you actually make use of the directory and filenames where it stores
>> the files directly?  If not, then you will find that a reverse squid
>> proxy cache works great because it cleans up after itself.
> 
> I do use it quite a bit.  Not strictly necessary, but convenient.  I also
> like having the history and being able to go back to old updates packages
> for debugging.

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/packagename
You know you can grab old versions of packages from here?

Warren