very large data files

[Jason Harris]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
> Maybe that's a stupid question, but what about distributing the files
> via a torrent. This way we would have little load on our servers and
> resuming and mirroring comes for free. Moreover, fetching 3 GB via a
> torrent is no big deal even if it takes days to receive all of it.
>
> After fetching the file via torrent its checksum would be checked
> against the checksum provided by GHNS to prevent forged data.
>
Ah, very good idea, especially for the really obnoxiously large data files.

I'll have to learn more about seeding a torrent.

>
> Regards,
> Ingo
>