InstantMirror Project: Google Summer of Code 2009

[Benny Amorsen]

Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> writes:

> 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.

InstantMirror looks like a brilliant idea. If some people can't wait for
it to finish, there is also pkg-cacher. It has a much smaller scope, but
it is very useful if you have a bunch of machines and you don't want to
fetch the same package dozens of times.


/Benny