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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by jayd16 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:21PM (#18451603)
Is there a way for public users to rsync(or whatever flavor of "better algoritm" you like) to traditional CDNs like Akamai?
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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by asgeir on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:38PM (#18451794)
zchunk, zsync, and casync spring to mind. zchunk and zsync require support for range queries but casync splits the chunks into multiple files. https://github.com/zchunk/zchunk http://zsync.moria.org.uk/ https://github.com/systemd/casync
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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by kardos on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:23PM (#18451635)
The linux RPM world has "delta RPMs" which lets you ship much smaller packages when updating. I don't see any blocker to delivering these through a CDN. Not sure if this is quite what you were asking.
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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by paulryanrogers on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:19PM (#18453464)
I believe the Deb world also has Jigsaw
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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:22PM (#18451621)
The closest you'd come to such a setup is a squid proxy with some prefetching (besides bittorrent, which CDNs don't support until IPFS is a first class citizen).
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