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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org