One major problem is the current limitation in freenet 0.4 which, while it consolidates its data store into a single file, can only work with one such file.
Most operating systems and java interpreters can only support 2GB files. This results in a severe restriction which IMO *must* be overcome before freenet 0.5 is released. 0.5 desperately needs to be able to run n datastore files, each up to 2GB in size. This is not a 'nice to have', it is *absolutely essential*. 2GB is not large in today's terms. If you feel impatient, you could create 50 freenet nodes on your machine, each with a 2GB datastore. Configure each node to use a different FNP port and FCP port. Break up your collection into 'sub-freesites', each with 2GB or less of data in total. Insert each 'sub-freesite' into each respective node at htl=0. Then, create a 'master freesite' which contains links to the other freesites. Insert this master freesite into one or more of the nodes with htl of 5 to 15. Then, aggressively promote this master freesite. Send its address to every freesite operator you can find, and post its address to this list. Hopefully, demand will result in the sub-freesites propagating around freenet. But, in conclusion, 100GB is a hell of a lot of data for the current state of 0.4, and the tiny number of nodes currently online. You might want to create just one 2GB 'sub-freesite', plus the master freesite, and insert these. Wait till your regular inserts keep going through successfully, then add the next 'sub-freesite' to your insert script. Perhaps it's good you've only got 56k of bandwidth. Inserting any faster than that would paralyse freenet in its current state. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:39 PM Subject: [freenet-chat] how to move lots of files online? > I have roughly 100gigs of images I want to make available on FreeNet. I > have already been working on a special site that indexes the images and > will later index movies, music, sound effects, various types of documents, > etc also. I no longer can get broadband Net access where I live now so it > all has to go over a 56k modem. Any suggestions? > > *^*^*^* > Michael McGlothlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.nomadphones.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Chat mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat > _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
