--- Jane Dogalt jdogalt@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Joachim Frieben jfrieben@gmx.de 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
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