Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (198 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 02:42, Anthony Bryan wrote:
> I think most Novell and openSUSE people have been quiet about metalink, I
> would be interested to know their opinions. Unless they hated it :)

Metalink concept is not completely new. Bittorrent has similar ideas, it just 
doesn't involve FTP and HTTP servers.

For the engineering the point of better download protocol (method) is better 
usage of present resources (servers and bandwith) so if they find it 
interesting, they will come up. 

Right now, from descriptions, I can see that metalinks client introduces some 
overhead by checking server speed from each client (60000 times), That can be 
avoided with central test servers in few parts of the world, or aggregating 
data from clients in different parts of the world in central database and 
sorting metalinks accordingly. 

For instance the http://download.opensuse.org can be good place for that. 

-- 
Regards, Rajko.
http://en.opensuse.org/MiniSUSE 
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal 
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