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It does make sense to avoid having servers that saturate their link with a zillion identical downloads on every deploy; but I wonder why they went for BitTorren
by wolfgang42 4y ago
It does make sense to avoid having servers that saturate their link with a zillion identical downloads on every deploy; but I wonder why they went for BitTorrent, rather than using multicast the way e.g. Windows enterprise installs do it.
- adql 4y agoCoz you need working multicast across entire network or server-per-datacenter to multicast (and data still needs to get to that server). It's much simpler to just point a server to torrent tracker and let them exchange stuff between themselves