2006/4/10, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 17:02 +0100, Robert Mortimer wrote: > > On the subject of bandwidth, would it be possible to produce install > > ISO images once a month that included latest updates? Images would be > > dished out by bit-torrent and for each install would reduce load on > > the main servers at time of first update. > > While spinning an iso set is relatively easy, verifying it is a bit > hard. Currently the way the trademark works, Red Hat would have to do > all this. Given our 6 month release cycle, that is a lot of work to be > dropping on our heads. > > > Alternately produce an update repository torrent with instructions to > > produce a local update repository. Each day a new tracker would > > be produced and used to update the local update repository. > > This could be automated as a script. > > Um, whats wrong w/ rsync? rsync to a local mirror, you get the bits, > you get the metadata, you only get the changed parts from day to day, > problem solved. Why involve torrent? Why make it even more > complicated? well the reason for beeing able to mirror the update repos with a permanently updated torrent would be simply that people are able to share the bandwidth they have open. rsync causes lots of server load afaik. mirroring is useful for a variety of reasons. regards, Rudolf Kastl > > -- > Jesse Keating > Release Engineer: Fedora > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBEOoM54v2HLvE71NURAgfJAJ9JWK92CsKOBzRktus3RsgsbX9omACfWJbt > eoShLI9nqnyn4qdZQW8lHXo= > =kCkT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > > -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list