Fwd: Re: [LMH]Data file mirroring

[Dan Moniz]

Simple mistyped list address.  --dnm

>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:01:43 -0700
>To: James A. Crippen <james@unlambda.com>, lispn-hackers@lists.unlambda.com
>From: Dan Moniz <dnm@pobox.com>
>Subject: Re: [LMH]Data file mirroring
>
>At 10:43 PM 8/25/2003 -0800, James A. Crippen wrote:
>
>>Okay, here's the start of a plan.
>
>[snip]
>
>Please forgive me for not having yet read James's detailed mirroring plan. 
>I saw the initial post he made (hi James!) about needing more space for 
>larger files, using some sort of distributed system, etc., and thought 
>"this might be a perfect place to use BitTorrent!"
>
>For those who don't know, BitTorrent is a download protocol and software 
>package optimized for scalability for large, popular files; the kind that 
>normally overrun small Web sites and servers that become popular. Anyway, 
>I think it may also be useful for our needs. More information can be found 
>at <http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/>. Bram, the author of 
>BitTorrent, is a personal friend, so there's my bias disclosure.
>
>Setting up BitTorrent basically involves setting up a tracker, wherein you 
>list ".torrent" files of the downloadables you want to offer up. The 
>.torrent files themselves are what you "download", which contain 
>information on what other hosts have pieces or the entirety of the file 
>you want. BitTorrent starts downloading from as many usable peers as 
>possible, and other users can even download pieces from you once you start 
>downloading yourself, even before you're finished.
>
>Anyway, without getting into too much detail, I think it's probably worth 
>investigating. Comments?


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Dan Moniz <dnm@pobox.com> [http://www.pobox.com/~dnm/]