Yum & BitTorrent

David Nielsen gnomeuser at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 18:31:40 UTC 2006


tir, 21 02 2006 kl. 11:14 -0700, skrev Don Springall:
> Has anyone looked at the feasibility of yum and pirut using bittorent for 
> downloads of updates ? Would this even work or help ?

bittorrent is really optimized for files in the 100 MB range, and we
don't have many of those in the repos - also how would we justify the
upload on dial up?

- David
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