drupal files SoC

So, my Summer of Code proposal was accepted and I figured I would start off with a post. For my project I'll be fixing up private vs public file handling in Drupal, which as I found out after awhile of talking to a handful of Drupal devs needed some work. I had originally been inspired by Wim Leer's proposal for a Drupal bittorrent tracker. It's a really cool proposal and I'm glad that it was picked up by someone else. That made me think, mirroring files must be a real pain, so automated mirroring with some metalink goodness would be pretty cool.