On 2009-06-01 09:53:47 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: You can always make a request to Infrastructure at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/. We've hosted some Fedora-related things there before. No idea if we have any sort of policy on what goes there though. It'll probably depend on how much space we have and how long it needs to be there for, etc. Thanks, Ricky

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: What sort of content are we talking about and how often are you talking about adding/changing it? Thanks, -sv

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: 30GB once a month shouldn't be too much trouble, the biggest problems will be: 1. transferring the data in a timely-ish manner 2. keeping lots of those datasets around. Hopefully no more than 2 b/c 60GB is a big chunk of space -sv

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: They don't and if you want us to serve as the tracker but NOT as primary seed then I think that can be worked out, too. Essentially you'd make a .torrent file with our tracker info in it - send us the .torrent file. We'll drop it in the holding path for the tracker and, ultimately, for our seed. so we'd start downloading it, too. or, alternatively, I could see about setting up a tracker-only non-seed path for our current tracker so that we could just track but not seed. Provided your seed would be doing all the bit-pushing work :) -sv

Richard W.M. Jones wrote: http://www.createtorrent.com/ Frank

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:23:43PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: This is probably getting way off-topic, but how does it know where the initial seed(s) are? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Seth Vidal <skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote: Hmm if this works out well, this might be a useful service for contributors in a more general sense. Once you have the seedless tracker in place, it will be interesting to see if other people make requests to use it for other secondary content. -jef

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Jeff Spaleta wrote: No problem from me- I just don't think we've had requests for this kind of thing, yet - and we'll need to police it. -sv

On 06/01/2009 02:39 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: I've been thinking to myself, trying to do testing this round, that having nightly builds from rawhide of live cd's and such would be tremendously useful, but the traditional distribution method doesn't really support it. To digress, it's really hard to be a useful tester without running rawhide, and running rawhide can be really hard on typical users. But liveCD + liveusb-creator is pretty easy. I've done a bit of preliminary reading of protocols and .torrent structure, and haven't seen anything that necessarily precludes a torrent that changes over time. Whether any trackers or clients support this I'm not sure. I'm writing this without having done any experimentation, but this thread seemed like a good opportunity to chime in, and maybe get some advice. Should it prove to be possible, bittorrent may offer some unique advantages over traditional mirror methods. But that's thinking too far ahead. Anyway, it seems a dozen or so folks with pipes thinking a project is a good idea (and thus willing to seed) is enough to bootstrap distribution. And having a coordinated central tracker is a great idea so users can know what's real and what's not. There might be some ideas to be learned from git too - I dunno, I'm mostly thinking out loud. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Cell: 603.252.2606 Twitter, etc.: bill_mcgonigle Page: 603.442.1833 Email, IM, VOIP: bill(a)bfccomputing.com Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf

Richard W.M. Jones wrote: http://linuxtracker.org/ http://www.tuxdistro.com/ Not sure if that's what your after. Frank