On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Aaron Sherman wrote:
My theory as to why is that bittorrent has a small chunk size and
randomizes access. Gnutella has a larger chunk size and while it
randomizes the first chunk from each available swarm source, it then
continues linearly through the file as long as the next chunk is not
already downloaded or being fetched from elsewhere; it then applies a
heuristic that I haven't fully looked into (and may be client-specific),
but the net result is that I almost never find a file on a Gnutella
network for which less than 100% of the original file is available.
> a. Offer some Fedora infrastucture to help seed Ogg files. I
can put this
> question in front of the board. Strategic investment in a couple of
> servers could boost the availability of Ogg files significantly.
If you do so, it doesn't hurt to provide the same service for gnutella.
There's a server-only called quack out there that serves roughly the
same purpose as a tracker.
Jamendo supports BitTorrent and eMule/eDonkey. The goal for making these
seeds available is to support users of Jamendo.
I don't know much about eMule/eDonkey, though.
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