Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:43:34PM +0100, Anonymous wrote: > > if you wanna check the fec status you can do it from a new menu in the > > webinterface, which shows u the usual fec-downloading table. > > Hopefully we can come up with a more attractive/intuitive interface than > the one we have right now. >
> On this subject: One feature which was discussed but never implemented > was that on downloading a FEC file, the node would reconstruct any > chunks that DNFed, and reinsert them. Of course, this should occur in > the background after the reconstructed file has been sent to the user. > This should occur *with* the user's consent; making failed block reinsertion part of the interface. Doing this automatically leads to problems like people inserting files with hideously large redundancy and only inserting a few of the pieces. > This would dramatically improve the reliability of FEC encoded files. > > Ian. > Aren't FEC encoded files already supposed to be dramatically better than regular splitfiles? Why don't we just make normal splitfiles work better by improving freenet instead of fixing the symptom? Thelema -- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raabu and Piisu GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
