C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On 6/26/07, Mike C. Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You've just described BitTorrent, if I'm not missing something. It's >> > > Hmm, that is interesting. I hadn't made the connection. I don't > think bittorrent supports symlinks, hardlinks, permissions, ownership, > xattrs, or ACLs, though, which would make its use strictly > experimental for now. But it would be something interesting to look > at post-FRS. Certainly we should take a hard look before rolling a > new CDS from scratch; from the specification at > http://www.bittorrent.org/protocol.html it seems like the missing > filesystem metadata bits wouldn't be too hard to add. > --scott > > Distribute tar files over bittorrent?
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