[Live-demo] Torrents of Images?

[Alex Mandel]

Basically, from what I understand, if the uploader has the file and
creates the torrent using your favorite client, then all you would need
to post on downloads would be the .torrent file and start seeding from
your machine.

Once that's done notify the list and we would all start the torrent and
connect to you and each other, the download server if it had a torrent
client could also connect, and viola the next thing we know the whole
dev team and the server would have the file. No need to check hash, no
need to restart upload or download since the torrent client handles that
for you.

Worst case scenario, once one of us closer to the osgeo server gets the
file, we post it to the server (I could do that since I have a fast
connection and I'm in California) and then repost an updated torrent
file that includes the Web Seed link (Basically it's a link to the file
via http, so that if no seeders are available it uses that file).

I don't really know if it will speed things up but it might,
Alex

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> 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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