On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:48:16AM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote:
> >From Sebastian Sp?th <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de>
>
> >>> Prefetching a bunch of movies would be dumb, but prefetching a website
> >>> would be good.
> >
> >That would mean you want to prefetch certain types of files
> >(html,txt,...) and leaving out others (.gif,mp3)? That would
> >artificially raise the popularity of the former file types.
> >E.g. an often visited dmoz.org like directory would to never having
> >pages dropping out of freenet which it links to, even if they are
> >uninteresting.
> >
> >Seb
> >
>
> You get a pretty good guess of how big the document is from the key (SSK, SVK,
> KSK <= 32k, CHK has a size byte) so you could just prefetch anything up to a
> certain size (say, 128kB on a fast connection), without having to figure out
> the type...
What was decided about moving the metadata into a separate key? It would appear
that that could solve this problem since the metadata key could and probably
would contain a content length, especially if it was a splitfile, which most
large files will probably be in 0.4 because of power of 2 filesize forcing.
>
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