[rhn-users] rsync? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Paul Wayper]

On 30/08/10 09:39, Paul Wayper wrote:
> A hybrid long-term solution would be for Red Hat to provide a program 
> that takes a torrent file and an existing ISO and checks the blocks in 
> the ISO against the torrent file's block md5sums.  It could then use 
> segmented downloading to fetch only the blocks in which errors had 
> been found.  (This is a useful project for everyone - I wonder if it's 
> already been done).

Just in case I'm not clear here I mean segmented HTTP/HTTPS downloading 
- i.e. proxy compatible, regular web requests.  So the torrent file is 
only used as a reference and no bittorrent traffic is needed.

Have fun,

Paul

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