Re: [gentoo-dev] portage + bittorrent anyone?

[Fred Van Andel]

Jason Toffaletti <catalyst@×××.com> wrote:
(02/15/2004 21:32)

>Is there any interest in adding bittorrent support to portage. This would give
>users the option of using bittorrent to download distfiles. It would take
>some load off of rsync mirrors. Some work might need to be done to add
>features to bittorrent to allow users to share their local distfile cache,
>but its already written in python, which is a plus.
>
>- Jason T.

Bittorrent is not a good mechanism for sharing gentoo files for the following reasons:

Bitorrent requires a separate instance and a separate open port for every file that you are sharing. When some people will be sharing hundreds of files this is simply not a workable approach. 

Bittorent is optimized towards dealing with a small number of large files under very high (initial) demand situations. Our needs are different, we are dealing with large number of much smaller files under moderate demand and without the initial spike in demand. 

The reason that bittorrent works so well is that it forces everyone to share if they want to download, consequently there is a lot of upload bandwith available on the network.  Any system that forces sharing would be able to work as well.

In theory I am working on a P2P system specific to the needs of gentoo, however I must admit that I have not worked on it for a while.  Will someone please kick me in the *ss to get me working on it again.

Fred Van Andel
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