On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:44:33PM -0500, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de> wrote:
Which URL were you downloading from? Directly from a mirror, or were you using the .torrent file?
The ftp5.gwdg.de link that you had listed actually. No torrent.
Failed again at 70% due to timeout.
Yes, if there is only a single download source, there is of course not much failover that the client can do. So in this case, no Bittorrent was involved.
I like the minute by minute log. Useful.
For the beta DVDs that we published so far, it's not easy to combine HTTP/FTP and bittorrent. But once we have the DVDs on download.opensuse.org (with the next Beta, I hope), aria2c will be able to use HTTP/FTP and bittorrent in parallel.
So, we will need to have it open a torrent file instead? Or will you have a special file with both types of into in it that we can use instead?
The latter - but you won't notice it. The client (aria2c) accesses the normal HTTP link to the iso image (http://download.opensuse.org/..../*.iso) which is just the link that you would see / click at in the web browser. The server notices that the client understands Metalinks, and returns in fact a Metalink. The Metalink contains both types of download sources, plus hashes for verification. This is transparently negotiated by client and server, and you can simulate it with curl -H "Accept: application/metalink+xml" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Beta4/iso/openSUSE-11.1-Beta4... You'll see the raw Metalink that aria2c gets. Thus, there is only one (type of) link you need to know, and it'll transparently work with all possible clients, be it a simple web browser or aria2c. And metalink clients like aria2c will make use of the full potential. Peter -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development