On Thu,20.May.10, 21:54:22, David Voisin wrote: > > The platform is a mix between central server and pear to pear. There > are various machines on the web that we actually own (but this could > be extended to any computer willing to share on internet) that > contain the various ISO blocks, and a central server that knows > where every block is stored. > The difference with bittorrent is that you do not have the > communication between the seeds which consume your bandwith, you do > not share your blocks (no upload) and you do not depend on the seeds > disponibility. > The ISOs proposed are always available, and if we need new servers > it is easy to add new servers.
Sounds like a distributed jigdo ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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