Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (592 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Hugo Costelha <hugo.costelha@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Friday 20 October 2006 12:56, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> Hugo Costelha <hugo.costelha@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > [...]
>> > I think that one idea that has been mentioned, and that it would work
>> > rather well, is to also distribute the DVD for all the alfa/beta stages,
>> > but only through torrent. This way you wouldn't waste bandwidth with your
>> > mirros, you would actually save some bandiwidth, and you would make many
>> > people happy in just recording one media device to do all the beta tests.
>>
>> We would still seed it from our servers - at least initially - and
>> experience has shown that our servers are saturated, it will not work
>> if this is just our servers.  If a couple of mirrors help with
>> bittorrent seeding, we will see what and when we can do this,
>
> You could allow only mirroring access (rsync et all) to the torrent to your 
> servers to prevent that, and this way only mirror would be used, right?

This would be something to do for the bittorrent DVD - but I'm not
aware of mirrors helping us, most are not allowed to use torrent in
their setup,

Andreas
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