From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29086 invoked by uid 1002); 24 Jul 2003 07:23:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12640 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2003 07:23:44 -0000 From: Fred Van Andel Reply-To: fava@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 00:22:03 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307230022.03786.fava@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] (crazy?) proposal to reduce load and disk on mirrors X-Archives-Salt: dc449514-804a-49b9-b49e-4ff261ed4996 X-Archives-Hash: c8a7af52bfc3b2a950e58663a136f77b =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On July 23, 2003 11:35 pm, bdharring wrote: > I realize this particular horse has been beaten well past it's death, > but why create a separate p2p system instead of using bit torrent? > Just curious, I'm aware of how bit torrent is structured, but that's > about it... Bittorrent is well suited to distrubuting a small number of large files,=20 that is what it was designed for. The downside is you need a separate=20 instance of bittorrent running for every file that you are shaing, so=20 if you are sharing several hundred files you need several hundred=20 copies of bittorrent running. =20 Another problem is that in bittorrent the client side server and the=20 fetcher is the same program, for our purposes we need a separate=20 program to perform each function. > Other then that, you've mentioned that you're attempting a proof of > concept, care to elaborate on some of the aspects of the particular > p2p system you're attempting to create/test? > ~bdh Lets see: Central repository of hashes for security. Only authorized files will be shareable. Separate server and fetcher program. Will download simultaneously from multiple sources. Drop in replacement for wget via FETCHCOMMAND=3D Rate Limiting on the server (but not to 0). The fetcher will automatically start the server (to limit leaching) Will automatically share your distfiles directory ??? It is NOT being designed as a general purpose p2p program. I have no=20 desire to become a target of the MPAA or RIAA =2D --=20 =46red Van Andel fava@gentoo.org GPG KeyID: 76526AD599455482 =20 GPG fingerprint: 64E4 4BAB 9C99 D565 3E3C F5D0 7652 6AD5 9945 5482 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/HjebdlJq1ZlFVIIRAmL4AKDWKGB+SEmMA/s9cdR6D15O/5sMvgCdE2aH ZMna7nBS7ESfa3uUnCY02/M=3D =3D/haH =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list