Re: Having a copy of .torrent in the /iso dir

[Nicholas Miell <nmiell comcast net>]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 15:00 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> It appears that torrents were set up independently by folks outside of 
> Fedoraland-proper, and they've been managed this way all this time.
> 
> Although is comparatively little cost in publishing torrent content, but I 
> think that having torrents published by an outside source is better.  When a 
> new release comes out all the mirrors get hammered.  It would be nearly 
> impossible for you to grab the torrent file then.


The release method could be changed so that the only way to get a new
release via the first couple days is using BitTorrent. This would
probably eliminate the initial load spike that the mirrors get. If a few
of the mirrors can be convinced to seed the torrent, things would be
even nicer.

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Nicholas Miell <nmiell comcast net>