DCS Updater: An option to run seeder mode?

[Worrazen]

Hello

 

It would be cool if this could be possible, to start the DCS updater in seeder mode so that it could assist other installations, this would work great for cases when I have other installs on another LAN computer, not necessairly locally installed.

 

I believe BT tech does have actual code specific to "LAN Seed" detection so it immediately recognized and runs at very fast speeds.

 

However this isn't that simple, if you would like to be a full and equal seeder you would need to host +100GB of torrent files all the time on your PC. This may work for people who would do it just for supporting faster downloads for the community, but it wouldn't work for when I want to ocasionally reinstall or update my DCS on my main PC, but I have another PC with limited space with a couple of DCS installs too, so if you have to download 200GB to become a seeder that breaks the benefit of this idea, it's about speed!

 

What we need is another kind of a seeding method without having to spend time either downloading sources first or generating these torrent files locally, which I'm not sure if it's a good idea because of data integrity, or if the torrent could be made without copy anything just using the in-place files in the install, this would mean some differneces how it is downloaded by the and perhaps these seeders in this mode would be incompatible with the normal seeders to the receiver, so this may be the limitation of only being able to do one type at the time or risk downloading too much redundant copies.

 

We need more seed-only modes then:

 

Seed-only Mode 1: Full seeder (mirror) supporting the community and relieving main server strain. (latest versions only?)

Seed-only Mode 2: Existing-install seeder (simple version = LAN only and limited to 1 seeder per receiver)

 

For mode 2 there would need to be some kind of handshake between the peers to establish what does one need and what does other have, it gets more complicated with more as the receiver would need to figure out how to spread the requests among the seeders and tell them to give it only that and then hopefully all of them provide it reasonably fast, if one of them can't keep the speed up and is the last one still seeding while other's have done their parts, there could be a way to automatically or manually drop it and tell another best guess seeder with same data available to try seeding and hope for a better speed. If you need big chunks they could all cooperate for exactly the same module with exactly the same version, it's just that you can't just put one torrent file for the whole install because of the differences in installs in terms of module combinations and so much more, and what about all the mods, so the drive to put mods into the SavedGames dir is ineed better, ... but that actually, if someone has a ton of mods, wouldn't that hog up the system drive.

 

 

Maybe I'm making it harder by speculating about what kind of way would this work, perhaps there's a simpler way that's not obvious to me ... I admit I just enjoy this thought-digging on purpose, I hope it's not going on anyone's nerves haha.