[Yum] More on BitTorrent and YUM

Konstantin Ryabitsev icon at linux.duke.edu
Wed Jun 29 19:22:12 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:14 -0400, Bill Cox wrote:
> Integrating BitTorrent into YUM seems like a good idea to me.  The
> distribution of files with BitTorrent is quite secure and robust.
> 
> Instead of directly integrating BT into YUM, I'd propose creating a BT
> client/server that acts like FTP.  It'd simply allow users to publish
> directory trees with the server, and clients could download from the
> directory tree in BitTorrent manner, sharing file pieces among
> themselves.
> 
> I'm thinking that we could create scripts for mirroring popular RPM
> sites by having a low-bandwidth server that downloads them periodically,
> and making them available as torrents.  YUM would have to be modified to
> use the FTP-like utility to download packages.
> 
> So, in summary, I suspect all we really need to integrate BT and YUM is
> build an FTP-like utility based on BT for pubishing file systems and
> downloading individual files from those file systems.
> 
> Should I work on such a beast?

The bottleneck is not traffic, the bottleneck is the tracker load for a
few thousand files. This makes bittorrent inefficient for yum.

http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumTodont

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin ("Icon") Ryabitsev
Duke University Physics Sysadmin




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