[OpenIndiana-discuss] Spare bandwidth for mirroring

[McBofh]

On  3/11/10 07:07 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>
> On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:56 PM, James O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> On 1 Nov 2010, at 21:54, Nathan Evans wrote:
>>
>>> I wouldn't mind hosting binary ISO images.
>>> Let me know if this is needed and/or wanted.
>>> Keep in mind I am still on residential DSL.(hopefully will be shortly
>>> remedied).
>>
>> More mirrors are always welcome!
>>
>> Residential DSL probably isn't the best place to host though. When new releases come out it'll saturate your line, and I'm guessing you don't have symmetric DSL so probably quite limited in upload.
>>
>> James
>
> Why not BitTorrent, and let folks spread the load?  There _is_
> a BitTorrent client for Solaris, AFAIK, although it's
> strictly command-line.  As long as you have a separate MD5
> posted for the ISO, so people can verify it, that should be
> good enough, and much cheaper in bandwidth for those that serve
> it.
>

$ pkg list \*torrent\*

NAME (PUBLISHER)                              VERSION         STATE      UFOXI
desktop/torrent/transmission (opensolaris.org) 0.5.11-0.150    installed  u----
library/libtorrent (opensolaris.org)          0.12.2-0.150    installed  u----
network/rtorrent (opensolaris.org)            0.8.2-0.150     installed  u----

$ pkg contents desktop/torrent/transmission|grep usr.bin
usr/bin
usr/bin/transmission
usr/bin/transmission-daemon
usr/bin/transmission-remote
usr/bin/transmissioncli


Been that way for quite a while now.