On Tuesday 23 September 2003 21:17, Sigurd Stordal wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > I was just thinking if it wouldn't be a good idea to integrate > > > > bittorrent into ebuild so people could use it to download the sources > > > > from diferent mirrors and even people could share a bit aliviating > > If you use prozilla, you'll be able to download source from many different > mirrors at the same time. So why would you need bittorrent.
This is worse than downloading a single mirror. If every body did that the stress on the mirrors would be much worse than it is already. The good thing about bittorrent is that clients would get better speeds than they are currently with only a tiny amount of extra stress put on the mirrors. Depending on how nice clients are on average, it could actually lessen the stress on the mirrors while still increasing overall bandwidth of downloads. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
