From: Dobrica Pavlinusic Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:20:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: initial explanation of motivation for torrent protocol X-Git-Url: http://git.rot13.org/?p=cloudstore.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b91578b63421e9314cd07655248772ec0c0c9861 initial explanation of motivation for torrent protocol --- diff --git a/torrent/README b/torrent/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34373aa --- /dev/null +++ b/torrent/README @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +torrent protocol can be used to distribute large, read-only files efficiantly if you +allready have shared copies on faster local network (home LAN for example). + +You can also think of this feature as nice desister recovery solution if you want to have +multiple copies of your data somewhere in the cloud, and use aggregate download bandwith +which is useful if you try to recover using asymetric ADSL network connections. + +