Re: [tdf-mirrors] Mirroring DVD/CD ISO files

Hi,

Am 26.01.2011 um 09:45 schrieb Christian Rohmann:
> Good morning
>
> On 01/26/2011 09:13 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > For the DVD's why not instead of pulling them to the mirrors offer them
> > as torrents?
>
> 1) To lower the bar for ppl to install LibreOffce I'd not JUST do
> torrent. Most endusers prefer a click to download something, sometimes a
> firewall/proxy even forbids anything else but HTTP downloads.

Right so!

> 2) If torrents are done, they could be backed by a few high bandwidth
> webservers (mirrors then) via http seeds. This would always give you
> quite fast downloads and still saves some bandwidth on the mirrors.

Torrents automatically exist for all files offered on download.documentfoundation.org. The content 
distribution network (MirrorBrain) takes care of this automatically. Furthermore, all mirrors which 
have the files are automatically included as HTTP seeds in the torrents. (To be precise, not all 
mirrors, just the 10 (or so) closest ones :-)

> 3) With adaption of LibreOffice from more and more Linux distros the
> direct downloads will then go to the package repos of those distros.
>
> 4) Currently I don't see much bandwith from tdf though ... why not worry
> about it if one can see results from changes (like introducing torrents
> when there are LOTS of big downloads from DVD-ISOs). Also the use of
> mirrorbrain sends users to the "closest" mirror, so it's not traffic
> being sent around the world all the time.

I'm sure the traffic will increase in the future :-)

Peter
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