From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14324 invoked by uid 1002); 24 Jul 2003 15:59:25 -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 22283 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2003 15:59:24 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:59:17 +0200 From: Tom Payne To: gerrynjr Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030724155917.GA17924@tompayne.org> Mail-Followup-To: gerrynjr , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030723194823.GJ9959@mail.lieber.org> <3F1F8C28.7050807@ifi.uio.no> <1059064781.6299.3.camel@screamer.nfn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1059064781.6299.3.camel@screamer.nfn.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] (crazy?) proposal to reduce load and disk on mirrors X-Archives-Salt: aee39fad-9829-4ba4-9682-b6fb2964aab5 X-Archives-Hash: ea627027e25d9493963ca077d79048b5 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:39:42AM -0500, gerrynjr 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. BitTorrent would be the obvious starting point here. It might require a bit of tweaking to shared all available files in /usr/portage/distfiles (rather than individual files), but that's all. gentoo.org could run tracker (list of available peers). Security concerns are already builtin to BitTorrent. It uses hashing to ensure you're being sent uncorrupted/tampered data. More info: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ This would be a _really_ good thing to implement. Regards, Tom -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list