Collapsing DVD and CD torrents into one

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Oct 20 13:58:01 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 01:04 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Fri October 17 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Most torrent clients I've seen today allow you to pick and choose which
> > files you wish to download.  As such, does it make sense to collapse the
> > DVD and CD torrents into a single torrent and allow people to use the
> > client to pick which they want?  Are there pros/cons to this?
> 
> I have a probably crazy idea: How about composing the DVD iso using a 
> filesystem that contains the CD isos and a bootloader that can use the CD 
> isos as installation source? Then a little bit of space of the DVD iso would 
> be wasted and it would take a little more effort to burn only the CD isos, 
> but then only one torrent would be needed and everyone can easily share 
> bandwidth with everyone else.

It's quite a bit more effort to burn them if you're trying to burn from
a non-Linux platform.

Also, it means that DVD vs CD become significantly different install
paths requiring different code and a lot different testing :-/

Jeremy




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