On Tue, December 16, 2008 09:11, Clayton wrote:
The topic is probably more suitable for opensuse-project - it's not really a general user topic. I'm sure it can be done, but is it necessary? Isn't the whole point (of torrent) that there won't _be_ any massive hammering on any servers? As long as there is a good initial feed, the torrents will slowly pick up and that's it.
OK, I can post on that list.
Is it necessary? Well... did you try to go download the Torrent file to start your torrent when 11.0 was released? I couldn't get to the server for 3 days - OK I wasn't trying every 30 seconds for 3 days straight, but every time I'd go to try and get the torrent, I'd get timeouts. I could go get it from Mininova, PirateBay etc, but... I prefer to get something like this from a reliable source rather than the dubious torrent sites.
Providing the torrent early without enabling the tracker means that our BitTorrent clients would just idle until the tracker was "on". It also means that the regulars here could immediately start assisting in the seeding without also having to hammer the openSUSE website hoping that they can get in long enough to grab the Torrent file.
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