Re: Bittorrent for releases (offering)

[Magnus Eriksson <magetoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:

> If Sdavtaker wants to set up a torrent, it doesn't affect anything we do.
> I don't see a problem.

It might affect the need for "mirror lists for isos, snapshots and packages" and
a "mirror selection tool/dns roundrobin" though.

And the argument on the wiki makes no sense.  "Not enough bandwidth"? 
Right.


I'll happily offer up some shovelling of bits through the tubes, by the 
way.  I don't have a huge lot of bandwidth either (formally 3 Mbit, bursts 
higher); but I doubt there will be only two of us.


All that said, I believe things work just fine as it is now.  It's just 
that I personally look for a torrent first, before using a "traditional" 
method.


MAgnus