From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 8 19:24:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27AC16A417 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 19:24:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbruno@miralink.com) Received: from plato.miralink.com (mail.miralink.com [70.103.185.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896B213C45D for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 19:24:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbruno@miralink.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by plato.miralink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5B061B967; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:24:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from plato.miralink.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (plato.miralink.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06853-07; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:24:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from iago.office.miralink.com (iago.office.miralink.com [10.0.0.40]) by plato.miralink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A8F261B831; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:24:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47ACAC65.4030601@miralink.com> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:24:21 -0800 From: Sean Bruno User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lowell Gilbert References: <47AC0BC8.3030509@miralink.com> <47AC3D73.2010705@FreeBSD.org> <47AC91B2.4020007@miralink.com> <44r6fns1dz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44r6fns1dz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Fri Feb 8 11:24:22 2008 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9997 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 47acac6678541592213743 X-DSPAM-Factors: 27, X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.499 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 autolearn=ham tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599, DSPAM_HAM=-0.1] X-Spam-Score: -4.499 X-Spam-Level: Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/index.html X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:24:24 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Sean Bruno 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. >> >> >> > > 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