It was meant more as a concept... Although with dedicated servers (effectively the same as the current rsync servers), there should always be a subset of servers providing all the data. Extra users seeding and sharing at runtime would just be gravy. Incomplete data would be just as likely as a bad download too.
If enabled by default in a thread in fgfs, there would be many options for evaluation since feedback would be trivial to obtain. Regards... Matthew On 10/5/08, Jon Stockill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Tippett wrote: >> Yes. Terrasync. >> >> With the intent being the terrasync thread can point to multiple >> repositories for data - low/medium/high resolution. Possibly using a >> bittorrent style sharing mechanism to share the bandwidth load :). > > Bittorrent is ok for downloading huge chunks of scenery, but no good for > terrasync where you can't be left waiting for that one last block, > without which your entire tile is useless. > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Sent from my mobile device ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
