On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 06:36:08 -0700,
freenet-dev-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:

>
>But this happens naturally since the file is moved to the top of the stack
>every time it is requested. I don't think there is any reason to artificially
>inflate it.
>
>On Sun, 06 Aug 2000, Muzzle wrote:
>> Sorry if this has been already proposed but i was thinking that a node
>> should probably keep longer the files it is more likely to be requested
>> for (ie the closest to its key) & delete first files that are "farther"
>> from its key and will probably get much less requests. This should
>> probably be of some weight when purging the datastore togeter with the
>> number of requests, the size and the age of the doc. 
>> 
>> Well you can tell me that this optimization is already done by the
>> weight given to the number of requests but IMHO it gets useful with not
>> often requested files that would be stored on a couple of nodes for a
>> little longer time before completely disappearing from the net.
>> 
>> Michele

The systm wold keep files longer in a few nodes even when they are not
requested for a while. I like it, I think we might want to let data
stay around some more when someone could still need it. It's an
inflation that would work on a couple of node only, will just improve
file retainement.

Michele

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