up2date/yum and bittorrent
Rob Park
rbpark at ualberta.ca
Sat Dec 20 02:43:20 UTC 2003
Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Patches too small to be worth the overhead?
Well, 500MBs to 1GB seems to be the "sweet spot" for BitTorrent...
anything more and you're risking the seed disappearing before anybody
finishes, anything less and everybody finishes and goes away so quickly
that the torrent only lasts a few hours... :)
Having each package being it's own torrent, for only about a few MBs,
just wouldn't really provide much benefit, unless there were hundreds of
people downloading at once.
Now, if a yum repository wanted to mirror the entire repository on one
single torrent, that might be worthwhile... mirror the repository into
your yum cache with bittorrent, then use yum to install the RPMs that
you want...
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