On Fri, 21 May 2010 10:33:32 +0300 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu,20.May.10, 21:54:22, David Voisin wrote: > > > > The platform is a mix between central server and pear to pear. There > > are various machines on the web that we actually own (but this could > > be extended to any computer willing to share on internet) that > > contain the various ISO blocks, and a central server that knows > > where every block is stored. > > The difference with bittorrent is that you do not have the > > communication between the seeds which consume your bandwith, you do > > not share your blocks (no upload) and you do not depend on the seeds > > disponibility. > > The ISOs proposed are always available, and if we need new servers > > it is easy to add new servers. > > Sounds like a distributed jigdo ;) Normal jigdo is already distributed: some packages are read from one mirror, some others from another mirror and some from your local harddisk/cdrom/dvdrom/bdrom/cf/... Dirk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100521105841.e3d403c1.neu...@yahoo.de
