From: Raimundo Bilbao <rbilbao@inzignia.cl>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] (crazy?) proposal to reduce load and disk on mirrors
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:54:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030724015453.5079e993.rbilbao@inzignia.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F1F8C28.7050807@ifi.uio.no>
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:35:04 +0200
Håvard Wall <haavardw@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
[...]
> How about implementing a file-sharing propram taylored for gentoo? Users
> could voluntarily share their /usr/portage/distfiles, or whatever would
> benefit mirrors. This would potentially let us keep huge (gaming-)files
> on their (faulty) hosts. When the original host is down, there would
> probably already be some users online which have a copy and is sharing it.
>
[...]
Sound great, a P2P gentoo (?), but how do you protect against trojans, malware and stuffs like that?, is MD5 (AFAIK, currently the only checksum used) good enough?.
cheers
mundo
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-23 19:48 [gentoo-dev] The release of 1.4 and its impact on our mirrors Kurt Lieber
2003-07-23 8:40 ` Alvaro Figueroa Cabezas
2003-07-23 21:01 ` Kurt Lieber
2003-07-23 9:28 ` Alvaro Figueroa Cabezas
2003-07-23 9:30 ` Alvaro Figueroa Cabezas
2003-07-24 0:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Pieter Van den Abeele
2003-07-24 0:55 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2003-07-24 2:07 ` [gentoo-dev] Python on the liveCD Nathaniel McCallum
2003-07-24 9:29 ` Seemant Kulleen
2003-07-23 20:36 ` [gentoo-dev] The release of 1.4 and its impact on our mirrors Matthew Walker
2003-07-23 20:39 ` Tal Peer
2003-07-23 21:10 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-07-23 21:41 ` Alec Berryman
2003-07-24 7:35 ` [gentoo-dev] (crazy?) proposal to reduce load and disk on mirrors Håvard Wall
2003-07-23 5:50 ` Fred Van Andel
[not found] ` <3F1F9174.6010504@ifi.uio.no>
2003-07-23 6:04 ` Fred Van Andel
2003-07-24 5:54 ` Raimundo Bilbao [this message]
2003-07-23 6:42 ` Fred Van Andel
2003-07-24 7:30 ` Robin H.Johnson
2003-07-23 7:53 ` Fred Van Andel
2003-07-24 6:35 ` bdharring
2003-07-23 7:22 ` Fred Van Andel
2003-07-24 9:32 ` Mix Sella
2003-07-24 16:39 ` gerrynjr
2003-07-24 15:59 ` Tom Payne
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