[Live-demo] Torrents of Images?

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at lisasoft.com
Mon Sep 14 16:40:39 PDT 2009


Alex,
That would be very useful if it helps with the uploading of images too. 
Currently it takes me hours to complete an upload, and often requires me 
to restart it 2 or 3 times.

Alex Mandel wrote:
> I've been tinkering with how to create and track torrents with the
> LiveDVD and GISVM in mind. I believe I've come up with a solution that
> uses several freely available trackers, and doesn't require any software
> to be installed on the downloads server although installing a torrent
> client on the server might make it easier/faster to seed.
> Theoretically we could even distribute the file without uploading to
> osgeo 1st, and speed up the upload by spreading the load to several people.
>
> The question for the list, will it be useful to serve the images via
> torrent or is regular http transfer ok?
>
> There are also a few really interesting new variants on the idea which
> may come in handy down the line like Bittorrent DNA, which basically
> creates a torrent out of any download and provides the client to the end
> user automatically, they don't even know they're using a torrent.
>
> Free Trackers
> http://openbittorrent.com/
> http://publicbt.com/
>
> Bittorrent DNA
> http://www.bittorrent.com/dna
>
> If anyone wants to test the idea I've setup a test seeding Alpha5 and
> can post the torrent file, it could be sped up if we used the Web Seed
> option and had the file posted on the server too. Either requires the
> current files to be in a folder or requires the .7z to be a single file.
>
> Alex
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