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I am not sure there is some much choice. +</I> +AFAIK, there was nothing very exceptionnal, but we had a set of public +and private torrents. Mix of bittorrent and bittornado packages, at +one time at least. And I think we were using bittorrent package and it +did its job. + +Here the setup will be way simpler as it is just to deliver public +torrents out of a source file repository; apart from setting up the +server, most of the job will be to cleanly automate the submission of +new files to spread. + + +>>><i> - make sure that hosters are ok with the traffic that it will generate +</I>>>><i>    they will all be ok IMHO, but it is better to warn them, +</I>>>><i> communication cannot do much harm. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Do the hosters speak/read/write english? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I assume yes. But we can ask to raphael ( rapsys ). +</I> +Got an answer? + + +>>><i> - recruit a team of people to seed and find a way to distribute them +</I>>>><i> the .torrent, in a open fashion +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Do we use rabbit for the initial distribution too ? +</I>>><i> (should we do rsync access for initial fetch for initial seeders ?) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Is it needed ? I think we can let them use bittorrent and ask them to keep +</I>><i> the torrent client +</I>><i> running. If we distribute the torrent at the same time that we announce the +</I>><i> distribution, +</I>><i> I think it will be ok, provided early seeders have good enough connexion. +</I> +How do we expect to manage earlyseeders? Would be cool if we can +integrate this in waves (sending an invite to a set of 10, 50, 100, +200 then 500 people, then more or open). Or do we need earlyseeders at +all at this point? + + +>><i> And what kind of "requirements" do we have? +</I>>><i> meaning available bw, torrent running for atleast xx days, and so on... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I think we can take every possible people, provided they are volunteer. But +</I>><i> we can give guidelines, +</I>><i> like "try to distribute iso where there is few people seeding" ? +</I> +Yes and maybe encourage people on some areas (we have no mirror in +west USA and South America, for instance)? + + +Speaking of torrents, not totally related, but interesting, I found +this <A HREF="https://github.com/lg/murder">https://github.com/lg/murder</A> "Large scale server deploys using +BitTorrent and the BitTornado library". + + +Romain +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002937.html">[Mageia-sysadm] Package removal request: firefox-l10n-* +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002939.html">[Mageia-sysadm] Bittorrent setup planning proposal +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2938">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2938">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2938">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2938">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">More information about the Mageia-sysadm +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |