Re: Up2date using BitTorrent

[Carwyn Edwards <carwyn carwyn com>]

seth vidal wrote:

> If you want to spend time hacking on bittorrent I'd very much recommend
> looking at making bittorrent suitable for synchronizing the red
> hat/fedora mirrors as quickly as possible then more/better failover and
> mirroring support in the update tools.
>  
+1


Many of the commercial mass updating tools use multicast at the leaf 
nodes to enable parallel installs (e.g. labs of 200+ machines fully 
installed in 15 mins). Combining this with the mDNS, zeroconf stuff 
(with signed packages) would be very nice :-)

Carwyn