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Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Hi *, > > since Mike didn't answer my mail yet, I thought I can just repeat it here > as well... > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:28:13PM -0300, Harold Feit wrote: >> Once the backbone for this is in place, we will probably want to >> consider having 3-5 way failover for leaf trackers. >> >> Any volunteers for tracker providers? > > Here's the mail: > Hi Mike, *, > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:27:07AM +0200, Mike! wrote: >> Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: >>> Friedrich Strohmaier schrieb am Freitag, 7. Juli 2006 22:37: >>>> so now the rsync modules are: >>>> >>>> [PrOOo-Box DVD and CD-Images and distribution using BitTorrent] >>>> I'll give You a ping, when I bring the final files to the station. >>> PING! :o)) >> Finally I got it right. My disk was full, so I was having some trouble >> rsyncing ;) but now the torrents are up and running; happy downloading > > As you might know already, we (german lang Team) set up our own tracker > [1] to distribute the Images using BitTorrent since the ISOs did not > show up at your tracker (now I know the reason for that, but while we > were preparing the release we kind of wondered whether there will be a > dvd torrent at...) > > The transfer quickly summed up to over 3 TB (and that with only one > single "server-seed" and that only serving at 6 to 7 MB/s) - so it was > quite a success and a need to get this running quickly (esp since there > are only few mirrors that host the DVD) > > As you already mentioned it would be desireable if everything could be > held in one place, i.e. every torrent should be available form a single > place. I totally agree with you. > > To solve this problem (splitting of torrents over multiple trackers) I > was thinking of either creating linked trackers or at least multitracker > torrents. (So that ooodev would start to track the new images and when > borft has synced it would quit tracking that torrent and hand over to > borft) > > Would this be possible from your side? The big problem with linking your tracker in is your choice of tracker software. Luckily, the tracker software that supports linking can be dropped in in-place of your cuttent software. > > Or would it be possible for you to seed torrents tracked at ooodev and > merely list them at your tracker as external? If we link the trackers and adjust the torrents accordingly, the peers will be available on all trackers in the cluster simultaneously. > > Having a fallback wouldn't hurt either.. > > ################### > > And another thing: Your version of the DVD-torrent is split into more > than 15 thousand pieces - to me that seem to be very much (I guess a > torrent should have around 1200 to 2000 pieces for a good balance > between "not too much overhead" and "help peers get started") A side effect of using a torrent maker with fixed-size pieces. I will have automatic piece sizing in the torrent maker I'm making for supplementing this project (p2p network hashes, etc) > > > ciao > Christian > [1] http://www.ooodev.org:6969/ I'll pencil you in for being a tracker provider. Harold Feit http://wiki.depthstrike.com/index.php/User:DreadWingKnight -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRNED1V8nceBm0DUaAQLbkAf/cmsGTiWux354O1tnPgsfaWAQRY6EFK2Y YJfyA0Gigg6kGeP1fBPUIe61EMnFm4rWsFfENw6d4C6T01Dk4kBXM0kakIEBCZk/ fl4LP5mf342SL+qidsnqvxurpPKJyJn9hDLz6DTCB/wQlMnRrLBtzw9dNrp3MPSO X6WKZ1/t7mK2w+C3T0HQvKVCM+pyp2u14qh4C7BzFn+agIXOKX7bR2t4LOhpXmE5 yzcjgJ4Y6CnJ/LlpsLDbB+k7+QwtfaQ8oXbGXL1pqD8DLEvjFTIOP8s9/Hsv4e68 ZEPnKuYo9bPnQ1TmTr+GIWC+YsYhdv3t9pQ0OuX21uaCcFq5guwK6w== =bECq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
