Hi Christian, Friedrich, Am 28.03.2013 13:08, schrieb Christian Lohmaier: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Erich Christian <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 27.03.2013 15:58, schrieb Florian Effenberger: >>> [libobox-torrent sync module] >>> Is this still required?
>> [mirrorbrain a 'recommended' replacement] > mirrorbrain won't really help, as those are meant to be torrent-seeds, > while mirrorbrain deals with http/ftp mirrors. > > The idea with those is to assure that there are capable seeds for the > box ASAP, without taking the detour of downloading the file using a > traditional mirror. ok, click ;) > While rtorrent on bilbo likely has enough bandwidth, it has a limit > set on the open files, or in other words the number of concurrently > seeded torrents. So having dedicated seed for the files where > torrent-use is most likely (large iso) and on the other hand > low-volume (comparably few users download the iso - other files like > for example the windows installer can easily sustain themselves by the > swarm, even when the file is in the queue on bilbo). Thanks for another glance into the many levels of "understanding how things work" :) > But since we now have webseeds within the torrents, not having a > dedicated torrent-seed available is not that much of a problem. > > But I also don't see a reason against the rsync module - the torrents > are there anyway, and the tiny torrent files shouldn't put any stress > on the server - it enlarges the config, but that's about it :-) > > But of course left to the Box-staff to decide whether they want it. Am 28.03.2013 15:55, schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier: > As Christian stated, it's not of any harm to keep it alive. Also not > to forget: It's an easy to activate and to extend emergency distributing system. Well in this case I'd tend to add my mirror too, sorry for the misperception in the first place. ;) Also don't know Mr. 7he.at who seems to be running an own machine, at least that's all his 'homepage' shows. ciao Erich -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
