A friend of mine told me this was a Google interview question. Anyways, I'd recommend taking a look at this: The Frisbee server uses a custom multicast protoc

A friend of mine told me this was a Google interview question. Anyways, I'd recommend taking a look at this: The Frisbee server uses a custom multicast protocol to distribute highly-compressed disk images to consenting clients. The Frisbee client is a multi-threaded marvel that receives, decompresses, and smacks data down on your hard drive, really, really fast. Frisbee can be used to install complete disk images or single partition images. - http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/papers/frisbee-usenix03 http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/papers/frisbee-usenix03 - http://www.emulab.net/software.php3 http://www.emulab.net/software.php3