2011/1/12 Marcello Anni <[email protected]>: >> Thanks Olivier, for saying this much better than I could >> >> wobo, yet another mirror maintainer >> > yes wobo, but except Per Øyvind no one has really answered to my question... PS: you should really look into the research papers pointed to before even bothering to think about discussing this topic much further..
ie. to make bittorrent feasible in usage for this purpose, "regular bittorrent" won't cut it due to numbers of issues (ie. the common "tit for tat" - ratios put on seeding time & data uploaded before others giving you full speed will make bittorrent extremely slow for usage, don't forget the fact that you'd also need for others to actually keep on seeding the content you'd like, which for a live development distribution will be very dynamic as well..). Using special purpose server implementations, different DHT implementations++ will be required.. For large files that doesn't get frequently changed and that a lot of people will download, "regular bittorrent" is certainly a nice thing, but for downloading frequently changing rpms etc. you need a different solution and a working implementation delivering this to make it of any real use.. ps: sorry for my probably misleading comments on aria2 earlier, for downloading rpms it probably wouldn't bring you much closer to that goal as is.. -- Regards, Per Øyvind
