Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Warren Togami
<wtogami(a)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(a)togami.com