FAI performance

[Michał Dwużnik]

Hi Denny

[...]
> "My config space is indeed  in order of 10GB :> "
>
> If you have to transfer ~10GB to several clients at the same time, and you
> are not satisfied with the speed (NFS / tar ...) you should reconsider the
> underlying protocol. I red month ago an article to use bittorrent to
> transfer big files to get install several hundreds or thousands clients.
> Every installed client could acts as torrent client, before the first
> reboot. You need only a special place to hold the temporary data. The first
> clients need a lot of time, but every next ...
>
>
Nice to hear someone already had the idea I mentioned beforehand.


> I also think, that FTP is the fastest protocol for transferring a lot of
> data  - I don't like FTP, 'cause of the complicated firewall settings .... -
>
> Maybe also mutlicast is an option, UFTP for example or mrsync ...
>
> Thanks for the UFTP hint

Michal
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