Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents?

An anonymous reader writes "We've recently seen a number of interesting projects come from bittorrent.com, including Sync and SoShare. I sometimes use torrents to move several GB of data, especially when pushing large bundles to multiple destinations. It's mostly a hodgepodge of open source tools, though. Apart from anecdotes and info from bittorrent.com, details are thin on the ground (e.g. the Blizzard Downloader). I have two questions for the Slashdot community. 1) Do you use BitTorrent to move data? If so, how? i.e. What kind of data and what's the implementation? 2) If you've looked at torrent clients/tools, what's missing in the open source ecosystem that would make it more useful for moving around large blobs of data?"

Comments

+1 Linux distros. Only for multiple recievers

[raymorris]

Same here, I download and seed Linux distros.

with just two end points, it wasn't better

For point-to-point transfer to large amounts of data, the protocol does't matter, as long as the protocol is sane. The time spent moving data bytes will be much higher than any protocol overhead. rsync is roughly optimal because it won't transfer portions of the file that the receiver already has. BitTorrent is for distributing data to many destinations.

Re:I use it for linux distributions

[TheCarp]

$ env |grep RSYNC
RSYNC_RSH=ssh

Worth putting right in /etc/profile so anyone who doesn't want it can disable it if they want.
It is an entirely sane default.

Re:No - Resources

[darkain]

Serious question... How long have you been using a network HUB instead of a network SWITCH?