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Besides Linux isos and piracy, what are some common uses of torrenting? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It's kind of silly, but I still really dig the idea behind torrenting and peer to peer sharing of data. It's cool to think about any old computer helping pass along some odd bits & bytes of data, whether a goofy drawing or strange story.

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Clonezilla uses bittorrent for one of its massive deployment modes. I work at a university, and whenever we have to deploy an OS image, the ten gigabit uplink between the storage server and the classroom switches always gets saturated in unicast/interactive mode. Using bittorrent mode gets around this issue because once a computer has downloaded a chunk of the image, it can seed it for the rest of the computers within the subnet. One massive limitation is that the target computer has to have enough storage space for both the downloaded image and the deployed OS too.