Re: Up2date using BitTorrent

[seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Many of the commercial mass updating tools use multicast at the leaf 
> nodes to enable parallel installs (e.g. labs of 200+ machines fully 
> installed in 15 mins). Combining this with the mDNS, zeroconf stuff 
> (with signed packages) would be very nice :-)

in this case we need to get the data TO the mirrors first, once they're
populated then work can be done to figure out neat ways of handling
getting the data to the workstations, but the mirrors need to be current
and consistent. Right now they are not.

-sv