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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: very large data files
From:       "Jason Harris" <kstars () 30doradus ! org>
Date:       2008-07-11 22:16:43
Message-ID: 401f1570807111516x529dfecfna28f139811bdd6a2 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker@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
>

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