On 11/29/05, Maciej Żenczykowski <maze at 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