BitTorrent issues with FC4 isos

[bruce]

pedro..

you're correct! i forgot to mention that aspect.. it was late when i was
writing!! my bad!!

ftp servers.. or distributed file sharing.. hmmm..

i can picture a backbone of ~1000 servers.. where you as a user either get
the files from the backbone, or from any of the users who are tied to the
system.. who have the file on their server (the bittorrent approach).. wrap
this puppy up with the right algorithms.. put together the right web
application around it, and compete against akamai!!!

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro Fernandes Macedo [mailto:webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:56 AM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: BitTorrent issues with FC4 isos


On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:33:19 -0700, "bruce" <bedouglas at earthlink.net>
escreveu:
> after looking at 'getright', i'm suspicious as to how it can wor with any
> given 'file' of any large size.. if as you say, it splits the file up, and
> gets the chunks from different sources.. that's essentially what bittorent
> does.. i'm dubious that this app has the number of users as bittorrent,
and
> i'd expect over all, that for large/more popular files, it wouldn't be as
> useful...

getright (and flashget and Downloader For X) use the resume features of
web/ftp servers. They make several requests for diferent ranges inside the
file and downloads them in parallel. Then the data is combined back in disk
into a single file. The overall speed depends on the mirrors it uses.
It's almost the same idea of BT , except that the "mirrors" here are other
people downloading the files..

--
Pedro Macedo