package distribution crisis - CDN needed

[Garance A Drosehn]

At 11:50 PM +0200 4/7/08, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>Okay the situation recently was that the mirrors had no chance keeping
>up with all the package sets I've been uploading to ftp-master.
>
>We clearly need to move beyond rsync/cvsup synced ftp mirrors. This
>does not scale.

Maybe do something more "bit-torrent-y" ?  That seems to scale quite
well!

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =               drosehn at rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA