29 Nov
2005
29 Nov
'05
2:07 p.m.
On 11/29/05, Maciej Żenczykowski maze@cela.pl wrote:
Has anyone thought of using some interesting/innovative way to enable sharing of updates via a torrent-like swarm as well?
This has been considered - check out the list of "ToDont" items:
http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumTodont
It's a bad idea for a variety of reasons.
One solution to distributing the load is for CentOS to provide CentOS.repo files that include a long list of mirrors and then distribute the fastest-mirror plugin. There are some problems in that solution, but they are getting fixed.
Greg