On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:14 -0400, Bill Cox wrote: > Integrating BitTorrent into YUM seems like a good idea to me. The > distribution of files with BitTorrent is quite secure and robust. > > Instead of directly integrating BT into YUM, I'd propose creating a BT > client/server that acts like FTP. It'd simply allow users to publish > directory trees with the server, and clients could download from the > directory tree in BitTorrent manner, sharing file pieces among > themselves. > > I'm thinking that we could create scripts for mirroring popular RPM > sites by having a low-bandwidth server that downloads them periodically, > and making them available as torrents. YUM would have to be modified to > use the FTP-like utility to download packages. > > So, in summary, I suspect all we really need to integrate BT and YUM is > build an FTP-like utility based on BT for pubishing file systems and > downloading individual files from those file systems. > > Should I work on such a beast? The bottleneck is not traffic, the bottleneck is the tracker load for a few thousand files. This makes bittorrent inefficient for yum. http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumTodont Regards, -- Konstantin ("Icon") Ryabitsev Duke University Physics Sysadmin
