On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 04:45:11PM -0700, andrew fresh wrote: > OpenBSD Users: > > We have set up an site from which you can get OpenBSD Torrents. > > The site is http://openbsd.somedomain.net. > > The torrents are generated automatically on a server that is > rsynced to ftp3.usa.openbsd.org every 4 hours.
that's cool, but would it make sense to use > 4h? i suppose you probably thought about it, with respect to trying to not be too far from any potential update boundary, but also not being to 'annoying' to the server, and i guess the rsynch is not very heavy if there are no changes to be had... but it still seems kinda frequent for an automation ( i would think 8 hours should be still real ok, and that accounts for still being able to have checked for an update in the time it takes a person to leave the house for work and then come back afterwards ; maybe it would be worth trying to get some stats on the timestamps on the files in the different snapshots dirs and see how often the individual arch changes, generally, and have each $arch rsync based on that? -- just trying to think of netizen stuff ) when the contents of a specific $arch directory changes, does that render out a new .torrent file and update the link in the -current section on the www; or does it just overwrite the same name of the torrent? if it is the latter, and you're seeding the torrent for may 12th i386 -current; and then the rsync updates that dir and a new .torrent is made, and then i d/l the new one and join it, do we collide or do we just not see each other (like, the torrent in the tracker is by hash of contents or something?) can i suggest that the torrents only have the subdir instead of OpenBSD/subdir? maybe it is only me with the issue, or maybe it is just the way the two were hashed and their .torrents were made, but i have <dir i made>/OpenBSD/snapshots <- i386 snapshots torrent <dir i made>/OpenBSD/OpenBSD/songs <- songs after getting the i386 and the songs torrents, putting them in the same <dir i made> and running btdownloadcurses.py on them. jared -- [ openbsd 3.7 GENERIC ( mar 18 ) // i386 ]
