[gentoo-dev] (crazy?) proposal to reduce load and disk on mirrors

[Håvard Wall]

There has been some discussion lately about how to reduce disk usage on 
mirrors. Some programs (typically games) takes a lot of space and must 
be stored in the portage-tree due to lack of good host-sites on their own.

How about implementing a file-sharing propram taylored for gentoo? Users 
could voluntarily share their /usr/portage/distfiles, or whatever would 
benefit mirrors. This would potentially let us keep huge (gaming-)files 
on their (faulty) hosts. When the original host is down, there would 
probably already be some users online which have a copy and is sharing it.

Ok, I guess this might be a rather stupid proposal. I don't expect any 
supportive comments. Just had to get it off my chest -)  Flames are 
nevertheless welcome.


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