Le jeudi 17 août 2006 à 11:48 -0400, Anthony L. Bryan a écrit : > Hi, > > Metalinks might be helpful on Debian's download page for CD/DVD images. You > could have a single quick link to your ISOs that contains all the > mirror/p2p/checksum info in it. > > Metalinks, a cross platform vendor neutral fortmat, are used by download > managers & contain Mirror & p2p locations for segmented downloads, along > with automatic checksum verification when the download completes. It spreads > the download between multiple servers so its faster for users, more > reliable, & less load on any one server. Metalinks are backward compatible > too.
Given that downloads like Debian ISOs are already putting a heavy bandwidth load on the servers and that they are already shared among many servers, I don't think it is a good idea to encourage users to load several servers at once with one download. We should instead push bittorrent as the main distribution media for ISOs. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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