On 10/31/05, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 06:10:21PM -0700, mike wrote: > > it might be off topic for this list, but i think it may be > > advantageous to think about using some sort of p2p type mechanism in > > the future. > > > > imagine an infinite supply of "mirrors" to grab the files from, > > instead of centrally-hosted sites with what seems to be regular > > turnover.
Well, if it's infinite, then EVERYONE is gonna need a bigger hard drive (I for one wouldn't mind if they sent me a nice happy 500gig SATA150 - I'd be more than happy to dedicate 300 gigs of that to a mirror, but as we all know, I'm in no place to host so much as a paperclip, much less a debian mirror!) > > obviously would still need to have some sort of central servers with > > the ports/packages list to verify the md5sum's of the files to ensure > > integrity... could leverage existing protocols like bittorrent too. > > Someone suggested that in the past. As far as I recall here are some of > the problems that were pointed out: > > You would need a .torrent per deb file > Many files are small while bittorrent is best for larger files that can > be divided into blocks for parallel transfers. > Someone has to generate all these torrent files and then you have to > mirror those around so apt-get can get the torrent to then connect to a > tracker to then start downloading the deb. Often for smaller deb files > the actual download from http would have been faster. > > bittorrent makes sense for cd images (although even there the jigdo > system makes more sense since you can update a 3.1r0 cd image to a 3.1r1 > cd image by only downloading the actual changes, while bittorrent would > find most of the image had changed and do nothing useful with the old > data). > > Besides the current set of mirrors seem pretty good to me. I often get > 560KB/s on my 5Mbit link from the mirror I use. http works great for my > needs. I hate you.... not really, I just hate that you get such fast downloads... y'know, that evious sorta hate? -- === GCB v3.1 === GCS d-(+) s+:- a? C+(++++) UL+++(++++) P L++(+++) E- W+(+++) N++ w--- M>++ PS-- PE Y+ PGP- t++(+++) 5? X? R !tv>-- b++>++++ DI+++>++++ D-- G !e h(*) !r x--- === EGCB v3.1 ===
