[Gllug] Playing with a deployment idea - PXE, bittorrent, remote location

Chris Jones cmsj at tenshu.net
Tue Jul 10 09:06:23 UTC 2007


Hi

Alan Peery wrote:
>     * Bittorrent style download of remainder of distribution, source

Why bittorrent? If the server has enough RAM it will have the rest of
the boot stuff the clients need in cache and can serve it out very
quickly. Loading the clients with bittorrent clients would just eat away
their CPU and caches, surely?

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