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[Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature
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James Blackwell |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature |
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Thu, 25 Dec 2003 11:01:41 -0500 |
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Merry christmas!
I was thinking about mirrors this morning.
As things currently stand, archive-mirror takes a while to run, even if
the mirror is already up to date.
Why not add a =meta-info/last_changed file to archives? The purpose of
this file is to hold the date that the archive was last modified.
Archive-mirror could check this file for changes before it goes through
the effort to find what has changed.
My bias for discussing this request is that I do more than 100
archive-mirror requests an hour. Most of the time, any given archive is not
modified.
With this change, I could run update-mirror much more frequently --
particularly if I write a script that just grabs the proposed last_changed
file and only calls tla archive-mirror if it detects a change in the file.
I could run mirror updates every 5 minutes instead of every 20 minutes,
and still have less impact on both my connection and the sites that I'm
mirroring.
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature,
James Blackwell <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature, Robert Collins, 2003/12/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature, James Blackwell, 2003/12/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature, Tom Lord, 2003/12/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature, Robert Collins, 2003/12/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature, James Blackwell, 2003/12/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature, Tom Lord, 2003/12/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Idea for a feature, James Blackwell, 2003/12/27