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

Thu Jan 13 20:52:57 CET 2011

Le jeudi 13 janvier 2011 à 20:21 +0100, Marcello Anni a écrit :
+> > Le mercredi 12 janvier 2011 à 20:14 +0100, Marcello Anni a écrit :
+> > > > 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:
+> > 
+> > I think that we should 
+> > 1) diagnose exactly the problem you see
+> > 2) then decide on the solution.
+> > 
+> > So what is the problem when you download updates ?
+> 
+> i don't see any problem, if you read carefully the title is "proposal for 
+> mageia", it is just a proposal to see if we can provide more capacity for 
+> users downloads 
+
+Well, IMHO, if we do provides enough capacity ( and I think we do unless
+proven otherwise ), we may have better way to devote ressources, no ?
+
+If we don't provides enough, then we need to know why in order to fix
+the problem.
+
+Getting more for the sake of getting more do not seems like a useful way
+to spend our time.
+
+> and (in a long-term vision), increase our users base without 
+> overloading the mirrors, using the uploading capacity of users internet 
+> connections.  
+
+Well, so far, the mirrors maintainers told that some of the proposed
+solution would overload them.
+
+And I do know that bittorrent was said to overload the routing
+infrastructure of the internet ( more connections to keep, more routing,
+etc ). Especially now that more and more networks are fragmented ( ie,
+no more big /24 routing, the lack of ipv4 requires to redistribute small
+part of the address space on various place )
+
+So, maybe another proposal ?
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+