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@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.
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.
I see the old bzr repository is no more; I'd be happy to host the current version of the code (all 120 lines of it) elsewhere if anyone is interested in using or extending it. Perhaps I should rename it to avoid confusion with the new-and-improved InstantMirror?
If you want to continue development of it, that would be a good idea. Sorry I didn't think to ask if you objected to reusing the name. I thought the project was fully dead.
Might be interesting to compare my current version to it as well.