On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 07:49, Andy Green wrote: > Centralized distribution bandwidth is a major thing Redhat give us all for > free. It'd be great if there was a Bittorrent-style model for the community > reducing that burden on them too, that would ensure 100% availability and no > "single point of failure" like the up2date thing. I was actually thinking about just this same thing the other day. What if we crossed yum with bittorrent? That said, I wonder what the bandwidth requirements of running a yum repository are? Guys like RH have a huge issue with things like people downloading ISOs. While running a post-install yum repository would take some amount of bandwidth, it's more incremental bandwidth, with people downloading new packages and updates. While there is bound to be a surge right after an update comes out, I'm sure it pales in comparison to a new set of ISOs. But again, that said, bittorrent just rocks, so it would be cool if it could be crossed with yum. For the first time with Fedora, I downloaded my ISOs with bittorrent and it was fantastic. If you have never used this method before, I highly recommend it. It used to take me sometimes over 12 hours with a slow ftp mirror somewhere, if I could even find a mirror that wasn't at its max ftp users. With bittorrent, all that just goes away. I can start downloading immediately and I can saturate my cable modem download. I got all three Fedora ISOs and the two source ISOs in about three hours. Anyway, do yourself and Red Hat a favor and use bittorrent to download. Frankly, I'm surprised that Red Hat hasn't pushed this method of distribution given the obvious advantages for themselves. -- Dave -- Dave Roberts <ldave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
