I have a fairly large node -- 6000 items, 6Gb (only 4 are used). Hey,
so, out of curiosity I ran a couple of scripts over my store_port
file, and I was actually a bit surprised by the results.

What I had expected to see was an overwhelmingly large number of small
files -- redirects, DBRs, Mapfiles, and the like. In theory, I think
that for an active site and an active Freenet, these files are too
heavily favored and will sit in nodes forever.

STRANGELY, therefore, I was amazed to see the following results. Of
the 6000 files in my node, here's the size breakdown (kind of on a
log-ish scale):

File Size               Count   Percentage
-------------------------------------------
0-99                    1990    33%
100-999                 631     10%
1000-9999               968     16%
100000-99999            999     16%
100000-999999           842     14%
>= 1,000,000            516     8%

I guess it seems to me that, although the smallest size of files is
pretty dominant, as expected, it's not UBER dominant.

Now, again, my node is non-standard size -- a lot larger than
standard, and a lot more items allowed. So, I wouldn't put it up as
"the" snapshot of Freenet.

But what I guess I'm wondering is if perhaps we're putting too much
blame on small files for reliability. Could there be other reasons for
problems with file reliability?

~Mr. Bad

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