Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Egger <> | Subject | Re: ftp.kernel.org | Date | Sat, 29 May 2004 17:30:17 +0200 |
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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.
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