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

Tue Jan 18 00:06:25 CET 2011

2011/1/12 Marcello Anni <marcello.anni at alice.it>:
+>> 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...
+PS: you should really look into the research papers pointed to before
+even bothering to think
+about discussing this topic much further..
+
+ie. to make bittorrent feasible in usage for this purpose, "regular
+bittorrent" won't cut it due to numbers of
+issues (ie. the common "tit for tat" - ratios put on seeding time &
+data uploaded before others giving you full speed
+will make bittorrent extremely slow for usage, don't forget the fact
+that you'd also need for others to actually keep on seeding the
+content you'd like, which for a live development distribution will be
+very dynamic as well..). Using special purpose server implementations,
+different DHT implementations++ will be required..
+
+For large files that doesn't get frequently changed and that a lot of
+people will download, "regular bittorrent" is certainly a nice thing,
+but for downloading frequently changing rpms etc. you need a different
+solution and a working implementation delivering this to make it of
+any real use..
+
+ps: sorry for my probably misleading comments on aria2 earlier, for
+downloading rpms it probably wouldn't bring you much closer to that
+goal as is..
+
+--
+Regards,
+Per Øyvind
+