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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download</H1>
<B>Romain d'Alverny</B>
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<I>Wed Jan 12 09:43:13 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:29, Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>> wrote:
><i> Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 21:45 -0500, andre999 a écrit :
</I>>><i> Some suggestions for faster downloads without bittorrent.
</I>>><i> 1) use aria2c (or a similar application), which uses multiple
</I>>><i> connections, defaulting to 5, and allows multiple mirrors.
</I>>><i> By default it starts by allocating space for the file to be downloaded,
</I>>><i> which allows non-sequential downloading of the file, facilitating faster
</I>>><i> downloading from multiple sites.
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</I>>><i> 2) use mirrors which allow multiple connexions.
</I>>><i> (Of course, with download software that takes advantage of this.)
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</I>>><i> 3) use multiple mirrors.
</I>>><i> (Again, according to download software.)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Theses 3 suggestions basically put X time the load of the mirror for
</I>><i> each client. ( or on more mirror, for that matters ).
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However, if 1) was to open 5 connections on 5 distinct servers, that
would make more sense, no?
But then I'm not sure there is so much more value than using a P2P protocol.
Romain
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