On Dec 12, 2007 2:47 AM, Jonathan Steffan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:55:47 -0500 > Michael DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > > > Mike McGrath wrote: > > >>> and we were going to > > >>>> judge jigdo a success if a certain % (compared to bittorrent) > > >>>> use jigdo. What % would that be? > > >>> > > >>> Jigdo would in this case be particularly useful to those with a > > >>> local mirror as they have 99% of the content already (90% if you > > >>> have F9T3?). Because it is particularly useful to some, and > > >>> completely weird and strange for others, the number of users that > > >>> will use it if BitTorrent is an alternative wouldn't be a very > > >>> good indicator to see if it is actually a viable distribution > > >>> method for the whole of Fedora, neither is it the goal for these > > >>> proposals. > > >> > > >> I'm talking specifically about people going to the get-fedora page > > >> and clicking on the torrent link vs the jigdo link. Out of every > > >> 100 people, how many people will click on the jigdo link? > > >> > > Jigdo did not seem to be very popular among anyone I talked to once > > they figured out the minimal install images were available. > > I will admit, our poll on spins.fedoraunity.org showed that more users > want to use BitTorrent. I still think these users just had no concept > of what Jigdo is *good* at and were left to deal with our growing pains > setting everything up. We do apologize for that. We do, however, 110% > support Jigdo in many cases: > > * Testing images can easily be "upgraded" to the next release, only > downloading what has changed > * Re-Spins: The same goes for Re-Spins, an end users (and the testers) > can easily "update" their ISO, again, only having to download what has > changed > * Any Spin: Not all mirrors chose to carry the ISO images. A next-hop > or local mirror might not be available with the ISO images for direct > download. This very close mirror will be able to be used to "put > together" the ISO image and with our awesome new MirrorManager the > acquisition of this data source will be automatic. > * Bandwidth Optimization/Utilization: We are able to utilize mirrors > around the globe without requiring mirror admins to think twice about > hosting Jigdo data, they already are hosting most of the data needed to > put the image back together and have to install no additional software > (as in the case of running a torrent seed.) > * Official Releases: This "letter" was directed at requesting all > updates be archived in some form; this bullet is about official > releases. These official releases will *always* be able to be hosted > via Jigdo with *very little* additional storage requirements because > the Fedora and Everything trees that were composed against are exploded > and hosted indefinitely.
Jigdo support will be a fantastic addition definitely. Bandwidth is very costly in my country. So, using jigdo makes a lot of sense to me. Have not yet done it just for proper knowhow. Cheers, Imtiaz
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