Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:55:55 -0500
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
That's my read on it, when a release first comes out the servers get
hammered harder with jigdo than bittorrent. The sole advantage of jigdo
is use of protocols which are more likely to be permitted through
firewalls, and conceptually allowing a server to have only part of the
larger image taking up disk space. I doubt that any machine which can't
hold the whole image should be a server anyway, that's just my take on
it, opinion rather than fact.
Yep. I think jigdo will be ready for prime time when it can use
bittorrent as a download protocol, and all users who chose to do
so can seed the rpms they already have downloaded and cached on
their machine. That gets the advantages of both, and since "popular"
rpms are (by the definition of popular) installed on more machines,
the rpms in the greatest demand will also have the greatest supply
of torrent servers, thus giving the best of both worlds (and no, I'm
not volunteering to do any of the work to make this happen - this
is just my fantasy :-).
I share it. Even if the servers just offered bittorrent for the whole
image download and then used jigdo for image to image upgrades it would
make things better for the servers, less load when something new comes out.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
