OSSNET - Proposal for Swarming Data Propagation

[Warren Togami]

Alan Cox wrote:
>>FAQ
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>>1. This idea sucks, I don't want to upload!
>>RTFM! This proposal says that clients have upload DISABLED by default.
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> Makes it hard to scale well. I was I admit thinking the reverse - if you
> don't upload you get very little. Economic motivations and all that.

Perhaps, but it still scales better than the one-to-one client to server 
model that we currently have.  And unlike current BitTorrent where most 
traffic is supplied by tiny uplinks of asymmetric links, OSSNET is 
seeded by MONSTER bandwidth from hundreds of dedicated mirrors around 
the world, plus your local cable/DSL OSSNET cache server.

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>>Comments? =)
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> Within a company it could also be very useful as a read only fs, where
> each inode is a torrent. Pull files from random clients not always from the
> NFS server 8)
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Um... =)

Warren