Like I stated in a previous blog post, Torrent is a real bandwidth consuming way of distributing things. I'd rather use Jigdo, which is very light-weight for both the client and the server. Better yet, clients could use our own version, pyJigdo, and give us feedback so that we can improve it.

Anyway, we do want our Re-Spins to be available to as many users as possible, and as it seems, Torrent is popular, still. Because Fedora Unity only has so much fast seeds (one that can handle the amount of disk space and traffic involved, actually), I'd like you to seed some, if you can. Right at this moment I have 154 peers (and growing) wanting to download one or the other Re-Spin, and I could certainly use your help seeding it to them. Check http://spinner.fedoraunity.org:6969/ to see which spins are most popular, and please note that most of the seeds you see are actually duplicates ;-)

Of course you are also welcome to consider becoming a Jigdo mirror for us, carrying about ~20GB of data, serving around 1GB/day.

Here's the Torrent files,

and here's the primary torrent seed:

Thanks, in advance,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

Given a torrent tracker you can track the number of downloads that have been completed and the number of downloads still ongoing, as well as the number of seeds available. Two days ago, a single machine at the office started hosting a seed for the latest Fedora Unity Re-Spin, and it spits out data at 4 Mbps average, with only 8 (!) complete downloads, and while 4 other seeds have joined the swarm (and I'm still swamping the internet connection).

That is so much different from the Jigdo concept. Per mirror, we do an estimate 277 GB per month. Would we have been using Torrent, that would have been equal to 69 completed transfers. Using Jigdo however it equals to an estimate 1300 downloads (per mirror). Again in torrent that would be 5.2 TB for each of our mirrors to transfer. Can you imagine we seed that from our home or even office internet connections?