[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

[Manuel Hiebel]

Le Sat, 2 Oct 2010 16:21:35 +0200,
Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> a écrit :

> * Renaud MICHEL (r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com) wrote:
> > On samedi 02 octobre 2010 at 13:42, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote :
> > > Seems to me that this is an area where all those really
> > > interested in the  success of Mageia can help, at the cost of a
> > > little bandwidth, by seeding for Bittorrent once they have
> > > downloaded the .iso they need.
> > 
> > But for that to help reduce the size of mageia on mirrors, that
> > would imply that the ISOs will be only provided by bittorrent (or
> > restricted to a few mirrors more dedicated to mageia).
> > 
> > I have already done it for mandriva, and I can seed some GB/month
> > for mageia ISOs.
> 
> Bad idea:
> - bittorrent servers are not so availlable, espacially several years
>   after the release
> - iso not availlable on mirror will bother people making their private
>   mirror for internal use
> - many people cannot use bittorent (my own case at work, university
>   filter it).
> 
> I am not against providing ISO using bittorent, but it cannot be the
> only way to get it.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Renaud Michel


Perhaps with Metalink ?

see http://www.metalinker.org/