Collapsing DVD and CD torrents into one
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Mon Oct 20 13:58:01 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 01:04 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Fri October 17 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Most torrent clients I've seen today allow you to pick and choose which
> > files you wish to download. As such, does it make sense to collapse the
> > DVD and CD torrents into a single torrent and allow people to use the
> > client to pick which they want? Are there pros/cons to this?
>
> I have a probably crazy idea: How about composing the DVD iso using a
> filesystem that contains the CD isos and a bootloader that can use the CD
> isos as installation source? Then a little bit of space of the DVD iso would
> be wasted and it would take a little more effort to burn only the CD isos,
> but then only one torrent would be needed and everyone can easily share
> bandwidth with everyone else.
It's quite a bit more effort to burn them if you're trying to burn from
a non-Linux platform.
Also, it means that DVD vs CD become significantly different install
paths requiring different code and a lot different testing :-/
Jeremy
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