* Re: [gentoo-dev] (crazy?) proposal to reduce load and disk on mirrors
@ 2003-07-23 7:22 99% ` Fred Van Andel
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From: Fred Van Andel @ 2003-07-23 7:22 UTC (permalink / raw
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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,
that is what it was designed for. The downside is you need a separate
instance of bittorrent running for every file that you are shaing, so
if you are sharing several hundred files you need several hundred
copies of bittorrent running.
Another problem is that in bittorrent the client side server and the
fetcher is the same program, for our purposes we need a separate
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=
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
desire to become a target of the MPAA or RIAA
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