On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:29:08AM -0700, Jeffrey B. Siegal wrote: > Bill Trost wrote: > > "degs" writes: > > So I guess this begs the question - what ratio of clients to nodes > > will cause Freenet to fail? > > > > Well, imagine that Freenet consisted of only one, really really big > > node. Would the net "fail"? Doesn't seem like it. > > Sure it would, because nobody would run such a node large enough to > service all the clients that would want to connect to it. Also, it > would fail in the sense that it would provide no censorship resistance > or anonymity.
When Freenet fully matures, this may be true, but at the present, any Freenet server which has the amount of storage space as the average NNTP server which supports binaries groups would probably be able to store the contents of the entire Freenet. Of course, Freenet would not work well if all the data was stored on the same machine. This would effectively defeat almost all of the advantages of Freenet. > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- Travis Bemann _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
