On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:28, Götz Waschk wrote: > The problem isn't the number of files but the frequent file changes. > If one file changes you'll have to regenerate the torrent which > involves the calculation of the md5 sums of the complete data. This > takes a lot of processing time. Maybe bittorrent could be improved by > making it cache some md5 sums for the unchanged chunks of data.
Götz, if you could blend rsync and BitTorrent into one protocol, you'd be an international hero. (-: Cheers; Leon
