2009/5/31 Michael Cronenworth <mike(a)cchtml.com>
Jesse Keating wrote:
> I'm afraid I'm not following your logic. Torrents aren't free, either
> the torrent server is going to have to give everybody the bits, or
> somebody is going to have to download them outside of the torrent and
> seed them for people
>
Jesse, I'm not following your logic about bittorrent. The torrent server
would not "have to give everybody the bits." Is this why you are so against
torrents? That's not how they work.
Your automated seeder would be the initial seeder. Once just one tester
gets it, they will be able to take the load off of the automated seeder and
spread it even faster to more people, and more people, and more people. The
automated seeder would not be "overburdened" and would not slow down.
Millions of people would be able to download an RC if you used a torrent
instead of an HTTP link.
otoh, it's exactly what
torrent.fedoraproject.org is doing.
let's say for the sake of simplicity that the maximum number of clients
torrent.fedoraproject.org can get is ten. once the eleventh client wants the
bits, it will no longer get them from the main site but instead from the
other leechers. and yes, torrent can get only the different bytes between
rc2 and rc1, if you already have rc1.
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