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On 28.05.2004, at 18:32, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> Ideally we would move to something like http/ftp-meets-bittorrent for
> content
> replication. Then sites which are popular would have lots of mirrors
> by
> default, and dedicated FTP mirror sites would actually share bandwidth
> ala
> bittorrent instead of just having copies of the same data. If this
> started
> using users' web browser cache as bittorrent mirrors it would be
> totally
> impossible to slashdot a site.

Actually I think this is *the* idea. Why not simply set up a
bittorrent tracker and have a distributed kernel.org
fileserving system? Instead of having links to http and ftp
sites there could be a torrent link as well. Several
OpenSource projects started distributing files with BT
already and it seems to work like a charm.

Servus,
Daniel
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