Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

On 2010-03-28, at 9:13 AM, Elaine Ashton wrote:

> On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:52 AM, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> 
>> What you're overlooking is that CPAN has, and will, continue to grow.  Even if you remove the cruft now at some point it might grow to the same size just with fresh files.  When that happens, you're right back where you are now.  Rsync can't cut it, it wasn't designed for this.
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> And this is a good point to make, yes, it will continue to grow and I know that the current manager(s) of nic.funet.fi have commented on the burden it presents to the system which is also home to a number of other mirrors. You cannot assume that the generosity and the resources of the mirror ops are limitless and finding out where that limit lies will come too late to make amends. 
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> Pruning back the archive is a good compromise until and unless another solution can be done that will not bother the mirror ops terribly much in terms of real work.
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> e.

Has some sort of disk quota system for CPAN author accounts ever been considered?

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Randy