--- Jane Dogalt <jdogalt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > --- Joachim Frieben <jfrieben@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Trust me, "everything" install media as you described will exist > > for > > > F7. Maybe it'll just be a 20G bluray iso since nobody cares > enough > > to > > > do the whole disc-split-pkgorder stuff, but it'll be there. > > (wearing > > > only my non-corporate-sponsored bad-track-history prognostication > > hat). > > > > Yes, but the question is wether it will be only accessible by > > "Bittorrent" or not as expressed earlier in this thread. Btw, a > total > > size 20 GB is largely exaggerated. I would rather expect 2 standard > > DVD images per architecture [not counting the sources which have > > always been shipped separately]. > > Is "Bittorrent" something different from bittorrent? Honestly, I > think > this has been said before- but if a set of data available via > bittorrent is not popular enough that someone decides to mirror it > with > http, thats just too bad. > > Of course, now I'm thinking about whether its possible to use a > combination of fuse, iso9660, bittorrent, and yum to provide a > software > repository distribution mechanism that doesn't rely on http mirrors > with lots of space and bandwidth... > > (i.e. think fuse-bittorentfs with an iso9660 layer in there, and a > default yum base config that plays well with such a configuration. > Probably too much overhead in there, but it sounds tempting to me) And of course to encourage participation in the fedora-skynet-grid you make it an enablable option checkbox right next to the smolt enable checkbox, along with an explanation that if they do so, 10% of their average used CPU time, 10% of their average used disk space, and 10% of their average used network bandwidth, will be used to participate in this grid (just a big bittorrent mirror of the master 30G all-arches F8 snapshot live iso). Anybody know if bittorrent handles well the case when you have 1000 clients offering 10G of space to communally mirror a 100G file? That sounds like a "community operating system" to me :) (for updates, I'm thinking a master server builds a daily snapshot iso, then distributes it to other mirrors via xdelta from the master iso bits of the prior day, then all the clients access via the same bittorrent-iso-fuse-fs thing. Though there are probably a couple holes that need filling in that design...) bhh... -dmc/jdog ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
