up2date, mirror repositories, and performance

[Will Backman]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 15:38, seth vidal wrote:

> 
> 
> Bittorrent does NOT work for MANY small files.
> it only works well for single LARGE files or full dirs of files that
> result in a large size.
> 
> <50M bittorrent doesn't payoff.
> 
> -sv
> 

Is there a similar protocol that would work in this case?
Imagine having 50% of the desktop market.  What system would scale to
that load?