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On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:39:42AM -0500, gerrynjr wrote: |
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> > How about implementing a file-sharing propram taylored for gentoo? Users |
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> > could voluntarily share their /usr/portage/distfiles, or whatever would |
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> > benefit mirrors. This would potentially let us keep huge (gaming-)files |
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> > on their (faulty) hosts. When the original host is down, there would |
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> > probably already be some users online which have a copy and is sharing it. |
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BitTorrent would be the obvious starting point here. It might require a bit |
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of tweaking to shared all available files in /usr/portage/distfiles (rather |
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than individual files), but that's all. |
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gentoo.org could run tracker (list of available peers). |
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Security concerns are already builtin to BitTorrent. It uses hashing to |
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ensure you're being sent uncorrupted/tampered data. |
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More info: |
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http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ |
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This would be a _really_ good thing to implement. |
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Regards, |
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Tom |
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