would it be posible to make a torrent with all the assets?

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would it be posible to make a torrent with all the assets?

Postby whatyouwant » Fri Mar 12, 2021 10:55 am

would it be possible to make a torrent with all the assets? this would be an ideal solution to the server-side problems of not being able to download all the assets.
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Re: would it be posible to make a torrent with all the asset

Postby joepal » Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:13 pm

Sharing via torrent is not a bad idea. But from what I understand about the nature of torrents, they're static. Once you create a torrent, it's only valid for the files that were around at the time of the torrent's creation. If you want to publish added or modified data, you'll have to launch a new torrent. So it would not pick up new stuff in the asset repo.

But I guess it would be possible to create new torrents at specific intervals, such as monthly.
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Re: would it be posible to make a torrent with all the asset

Postby whatyouwant » Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:23 pm

joepal wrote:Sharing via torrent is not a bad idea. But from what I understand about the nature of torrents, they're static. Once you create a torrent, it's only valid for the files that were around at the time of the torrent's creation. If you want to publish added or modified data, you'll have to launch a new torrent. So it would not pick up new stuff in the asset repo.

But I guess it would be possible to create new torrents at specific intervals, such as monthly.


yeah, that would probably be the best option.
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