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    • Atemu@lemmy.mlOP
      11·
      1 year ago

      It doesn’t really make sense to use torrents here. We’ve got a commercial CDN serving these files for us and they change basically every day or so.

      • redd@discuss.tchncs.de
        15·
        1 year ago

        Bittorrent has lots of benefits for the user:

        • robust stop and resume of download
        • increased download speed with using several http and torrent sources at the same time
        • downloading from peers from within the same network
        • automatic checksum calculation and redownlaod if needed

        Sorry that I asked. Seems that you feel very offensed by my question.

        • Atemu@lemmy.mlOP
          21·
          1 year ago

          robust stop and resume of download

          You can stop/resume downloads via HTTP too. That’s up to the client to implement.

          increased download speed with using several http and torrent sources at the same time

          Again, this is a commercial CDN. Speed is practically infinite. Without the rather long ramp-up time too.

          downloading from peers from within the same network

          That sounds like a micro-optimisation for an edge-case.

          automatic checksum calculation and redownlaod if needed

          Not really necessary for an installer ISO downloaded via HTTPS.

          Sorry that I asked. Seems that you feel very offensed by my question.

          ???

          As mentioned, one of the reasons torrents don’t make sense here is that the ISOs change quite frequently. I don’t have exact numbers here but there’s nothing preventing them from changing every single day. The current ISO is only two days old.

          Every seeder would have to discard the old ISO and re-download an entirely new ISO every few days or so.

          Given that we need the CDN anyways, torrents just simply don’t make sense.