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Date:      Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:24:21 -0800
From:      Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/index.html
Message-ID:  <47ACAC65.4030601@miralink.com>
In-Reply-To: <44r6fns1dz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> writes:
>
>   
>> <2cents>
>> I just found it odd that that users couldn't just specify the file to
>> download from the release torrent.  It also makes it slightly(read
>> almost negligible) harder to seed effectively as I would need to
>> download more than one centralized torrent.  Since I use the complete
>> torrent for my purposes, I can only assist the folks who also download
>> the entire torrent.
>>
>> </2cents>
>>     
>
> You *can* do it both ways.  Right after a release, I often download
> the "everything" torrent, then continue to seed that one while also
> seeding the partial torrents.  I use file links to avoid needing to
> download the partial torrents separately.
>   
Ah, that's a good idea.  I'll do something like that tonight.

That solution doesn't seem to be very obvious to me though.  Not that I am
an expert in this kind of stuff. 

/me drops it.

Sean



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