Bernard Li wrote: >> Moreover looking at some bittorrent papers it seems that there are not >> any improvements in synchronizing the clients installation (I mean to >> synchronize the image download from all clients). So IMO there are no >> meaninful advantages integrating the bittorrent ransport in >> flametrhrower. Do you see any other advantages other than >> performances? >> otherwise I think it'll be better to use bittorrent as a standalone >> transport (like rsync), since in this way it'll be easier for >> a user to >> configure and setup the bittorrent stuff, in fact flamethrower needs a >> lot of preparations and setups to be used... > > I discussed this with Brian previously and it was agreed that if you are > imaging 1000 nodes, using bittorrent for boel_binaries, image, scripts, > etc. will help. Of course if you are just deploying ~10 nodes the > overhead may be too great, and may not be worth the while to use the > bittorrent transport.
OK this is a good motivation, even if now that the bittorrent client is in the initrd I already use bittorrent to download both boel_binaries and image.. only the scripts are downloaded via rsync (but because inside this directory I put also the .torrent files and these must be downloaded using another protocols). A cleaner solution should be to create a separate dir also for the torrent, i.e. /var/lib/systemimager/torrents seems to be a good candidate... In this way we can download all in the same way as with flamethrower... > > I'd also like to add that what we might end up doing is add support for > stand-alone bittorrent transport (if we want to) but the option of > running bittorrent via flamethrower is also available... > Great! It shouldn't be too difficult IMO to include bt transport both standalone and inside flamethrower... for the first time I think it's the better solution, and this will help us to understand better which is the best approach. I like it! :) > Again, if we are able to run some tests, all these things will be more > apparent. > Yes.. I'm sure some tests will explain a lot of things... Cheers, -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
