Re: [CentOS] Re: Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:52 PM -0500 Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you are really curious about all of this magic have a look here: http://rsync.samba.org/how-rsync-works.html Ah, here's the critical verbiage, in the section titled "The Sender": If a block checksum match

[CentOS] Re: Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread Tom Diehl
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Kenneth Porter wrote: On Monday, December 17, 2007 7:05 PM -0800 Robert Arkiletian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of bandwidth. That surprises me

[CentOS] Re: Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Ugo Bellavance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. With places such as utah.edu [I am in North America] I got 320Kb/sec steady. It took me 3hr and a bit to download the 5.1 dvd. As far as I understand it, Utah and the other mirrors donated the bandwidth to the commu