InstantMirror Project: Google Summer of Code 2009

[Warren Togami]

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/InstantMirror/
>>
>> I have wrote down design notes of the new InstantMirror project.  This
>> project is meant to be fostered in Google Summer of Code 2009, with
>> multiple Red Hat engineers as mentors, and possibly multiple students
>> working together as a team. Students are to be judged by their ability
>> to work with others as a team, their ability to implement the plan, and
>> their ability to encourage participation from further volunteers
>> interested in solving these problems.
> 
> I could be wrong but wasn't there a similar GSoC project last year ?
> 

Last year was IntelligentMirror, which had misguided goals and 
ultimately is not very useful.

This design if implemented properly could possibly upgrade all Fedora 
mirrors and make them operate a lot more efficiently.  It would also 
make it real easy to deploy your own mini-mirror to serve your own local 
network.  For example, at home I personally would use InstantMirror with 
maybe 30GB of cache allocated, but pre-fetching turned off.

Warren Togami Jr.
warren at togami.com