package distribution crisis - CDN needed

[Pav Lucistnik]

Brooks Davis píše v út 08. 04. 2008 v 09:16 -0500:

> I suspect that like virtually everything else on the internet package
> access is heavy-tailed.  If so, no from of cooperative caching will be
> of use.
> 
> For example, this paper killed all research on cooperative caching
> web proxies by demostrating that its was fundamentally pointless:
> 
> http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.9583

Ok forget the proxies idea. I like the partial mirrors approach much
better. It will allow us to reuse existing synchronization
infrastructure, too.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?
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