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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [CORE] Bittorrent?
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:13:34 -0800
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Marc,

> If I'm reading the FAQ/Documentation correctly ... and I may not be
> understanding it completely after a admittedly quick pursual ... it sounds
> like a 'napster for files', with ppl uploading to our servers, as well as
> downloading from it?

Yes, but they're OSS-friendly, popular, and several members of our communit=
y=20
already use Bitorrent.  Among other things, Linux kernels get distributed=
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over it.  It uses the p2p network to bypass bottlenecks at certain ftp site=
s,=20
allowing you to stream the same download from 2-5 sites simultaneosly and=
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saturate your download bandwidth.

I don't think we necessarily need to host a Bitorrent server at hub.org; I'=
m=20
not clear on how joining bitorrent works, really.   I'll ask one of the=20
current users.

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-Josh Berkus

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