[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download

Thu Jan 13 04:55:14 CET 2011

Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+> * Marcello Anni (marcello.anni at alice.it) wrote:
+>>> 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...
+>> i think if that if we want Mageia to become the most popular distro over the
+>> world -yep!- we should find a way to augment the overall bandwith available for
+>> updates download, and what's better than bittorrent protocol to use user
+>> available bandwith to do this? i would like to know:
+>>
+>> - if it is possible from a techincal pov
+>> - if it is convenient and useful (overall in a long-term vision)
+>> - if we could plan it for the coming releases (and who could take in charge
+>> this)
+>
+> I can quickly answer to this:
+> - bittorent is denied where distrib-coffee is hosted.
+>
+> This close every discuss on this side.
+>
+> But I can probably setup a bittorent server elsewhere (it is nice to
+> work with two different university). But first I have to ask to network
+> administrator.
+>
+>  From my own experience, I never saw bittorent so efficient for
+> downloading, except it reduce the bandwidth for the team making the iso
+> available (and this is still not sure).
+
+I agree (for what it's worth).
+Technically, it is possible, and a number of applications such as aria2c 
+can use bittorrent.
+However the only time something like bittorrent is significantly 
+beneficial is when a large number of users with high uploading bandwidth 
+download the same large files (such as ISOs) at about the same time. 
+Which is only likely to occur shortly after a new release.  When in 
+addition to reducing bandwidth load on participating mirrors, makes 
+downloads for such users faster.  (I would say largely due to reduced 
+traffic on the mirrors.)
+At other times, it tends to just add a bit of bandwidth usage to such 
+mirrors.
+Still, it could be useful to have a few such mirrors, especially later 
+on when Mageia is more established,  At least around release time.
+
+> BTW: It's time to find mirrors for the distribution ! Any volunteer ?
+> http://mirrors.mageia.org/
+
+I'll contact some local mirrors to see if they will.  (Mandriva had one, 
+up to 2009.)
+
+> Regards.
+>
+>>
+>>
+>> cheers,
+>> Marcello
+
+regards
+-- 
+André
+