Re: Mirror list
well the idea was reusing the idea of a distributed/p2p mirroring
concept. not necessarily tied to a specific protocol, but it is a
standard... (and the .torrent files could be compiled just like the
md5 signature files, still on a central mirror/mirrors, but those
would only run trackers and not do a lot of seeding, it would be up to
the rest of the world to seed)
i know that i would run one of these. i would put an upload cap on it,
since i don't have unmetered connectivity yet on my colocated cluster,
but i would contribute. :)
i'm just thinking of ways to offload reliance on the mirrors for -all-
types of transfering.
- mike
On 10/31/05, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Someone suggested that in the past. As far as I recall here are some of
> the problems that were pointed out:
>
> You would need a .torrent per deb file
> Many files are small while bittorrent is best for larger files that can
> be divided into blocks for parallel transfers.
> Someone has to generate all these torrent files and then you have to
> mirror those around so apt-get can get the torrent to then connect to a
> tracker to then start downloading the deb. Often for smaller deb files
> the actual download from http would have been faster.
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