Noooooo!!!

[Fishbong]

Ok, i can access the gp2x archive, but the downloads still don´t work.

 

[Aninhumer]

Would it be wise to have some kind of P2P (probably torrent) setup for the GP2X?

 

[clarky2o2o]

that would be a good idea. like ocremix but at the moment i dont think this site has enough files to consider it a viable option. (couple of cramfs with various skins and pictures be good though).

 

[EvilDragon]

Okay, just got home, fixed the database file, downloads working again

 

[dennis20014]

Ahh things happen, it's cool

 

[Aninhumer]

Actually if I had broadband I would upload some torrents, but I don't (yet ) what would be good ideas for torrents? One big one, or split up into sections?

 

[aapje89]

Actually if I had broadband I would upload some torrents, but I don't (yet ) what would be good ideas for torrents? One big one, or split up into sections?

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no.

 

[nickspoon]

Actually if I had broadband I would upload some torrents, but I don't (yet ) what would be good ideas for torrents? One big one, or split up into sections?

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no.

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Eh? I don't see why not :huh:

 

[aapje89]

How would you ever want to do that, then you would have like 1000 torrents (who's going to manage that?).
Or if you would split it up in sections you would have to download the whole section, thats silly.


The file archive is just perfect .

 

[nickspoon]

You don't have to download the whole section.

.torrents can contain a number of files. You can choose which files from the torrent you want, and download those.

 

[Vimacs]

wow nickspoon, thats the ugliest firefox skin i have ever seeen.

 

[aapje89]

You don't have to download the whole section.

.torrents can contain a number of files. You can choose which files from the torrent you want, and download those.

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and whos going to seed all that, and whos going to add all the new files and stuff, I mean why change the way it is now, it works great.
And most of the time torrents are not really efficient for small files, a http/ftp download is finished before a torrent has even started downloading.


And yes, your firefox skin is ugly

 

[nickspoon]

What? It's Scribblies Brite. It's a good skin.

 

[FluffyPanda]

*whooooosh*

Phew, I just managed to duck that in time. I think it was the topic escaping at nearly the speed of sound.

 

[Aninhumer]

and whos going to seed all that, and whos going to add all the new files and stuff

Errm, me! I did say...

I mean why change the way it is now, it works great. And most of the time torrents are not really efficient for small files, a http/ftp download is finished before a torrent has even started downloading.

Yeah thats why I was intending to do large sections, and lets not forget (as fluffypanda pointed out) that the original point of this topic was about strain on the archive, a http/ftp download won't be as efficient if the server gets bogged down.

 

[aapje89]

and whos going to seed all that, and whos going to add all the new files and stuff

Errm, me! I did say...

I mean why change the way it is now, it works great. And most of the time torrents are not really efficient for small files, a http/ftp download is finished before a torrent has even started downloading.

Yeah thats why I was intending to do large sections, and lets not forget (as fluffypanda pointed out) that the original point of this topic was about strain on the archive, a http/ftp download won't be as efficient if the server gets bogged down.

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you? do you have a gigabit connection?

I get your point, a bit, but I think it would only be usefull for very very large files like andlinux which is ~300mb and if a lot of users would try to download that that would definitly cause some strain.

 

[FluffyPanda]

you? do you have a gigabit connection?

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You don't need it. The power of bittorrent comes from the swarm. You only need to upload to a few people at a reasonable rate (a few kb/s) and the swarm will take care of distributing it amongst the others.

It is efficient, but not really ideal for the gp2x archive since it would very quickly be out of date.

 

[aapje89]

you? do you have a gigabit connection?

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You don't need it. The power of bittorrent comes from the swarm. You only need to upload to a few people at a reasonable rate (a few kb/s) and the swarm will take care of distributing it amongst the others.

It is efficient, but not really ideal for the gp2x archive since it would very quickly be out of date.

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but if hes uploading on his own...

 

[Aninhumer]

Is there a slightly more dynamic P2P system that still maintains the file grouping. (ie. people can add to the file list)
I looked at Gnutella, eD2K etc. but you can only share seperate files (or archives, which you can't view until you have the whole thing.) unless there is some option I didn't see...
I realise of course that using an obscure P2P system is probably pointless so I'm holding out for a torrent until I hear a better idea.

 

[Aninhumer]

@aapje89: The whole archive is 1.6GB, If I get a 1Mb connection (or 0.125 MB connection) it should take around 3.5 hours to upload the lot once, they then transfer it amongst themselves until they all have the full archive (I will still be uploading at this point but if I did stop it wouldn't matter) then we can seed it to everyone else.
Of course quite a bit of the archive will be rubbish, and I think I might even be getting 2Mb which reduces the times.