On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Aaron Sherman wrote: > My theory as to why is that bittorrent has a small chunk size and > randomizes access. Gnutella has a larger chunk size and while it > randomizes the first chunk from each available swarm source, it then > continues linearly through the file as long as the next chunk is not > already downloaded or being fetched from elsewhere; it then applies a > heuristic that I haven't fully looked into (and may be client-specific), > but the net result is that I almost never find a file on a Gnutella > network for which less than 100% of the original file is available. > > a. Offer some Fedora infrastucture to help seed Ogg files. I can put this > > question in front of the board. Strategic investment in a couple of > > servers could boost the availability of Ogg files significantly. > > If you do so, it doesn't hurt to provide the same service for gnutella. > There's a server-only called quack out there that serves roughly the > same purpose as a tracker. Jamendo supports BitTorrent and eMule/eDonkey. The goal for making these seeds available is to support users of Jamendo. I don't know much about eMule/eDonkey, though. --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-music-list mailing list Fedora-music-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-music-list
