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

On 1/26/11 9:46 PM, "Dr. Peter Pöml" wrote:
> 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
No doubt the traffic will increase, hence the suggestion to have them 
provided from now.

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