Re: BitTorrent enabled downloads & updates

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:53, Elijah P Newren wrote:
> Sorry for the cross-posting.  I originally posted this idea on #fedora
> at irc.freenode.net and Anvil suggested I email these two lists with
> this idea.  My idea was the following: 
> 
>    Have apt-get/yum/up2date/<insert favorite packaging system here>
>    use BitTorrent for file downloads.
> 
> This would have the following benefits:
>    Users would get a much faster download rate (at least, that's
>      been my experience for the downloads I've done with
>      BitTorrent).
>    It would alleviate the 'which mirror should I use' problem.
>    Anyone could easily become a mirror.
>    It should keep any specific mirror from getting overloaded.
> 
> I figured this made so much sense that someone else has already thought
> of it and perhaps already implemented it.  Anyone know if that's the
> case?  If not, does that idea sound interesting to others?

It could be interesting but remember- bittorrent is mostly useful for
large files - not for trivially sized things like any single rpm.

-sv