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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-24  6:02 UTC|newest]

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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