On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:29:00AM -0500, Mark J Roberts wrote: > Volker Stolz: > > In local.freenet, you wrote: > > > It occurred to me that there might be some benefit to inserting freesites > > > as > > > a single redundant splitfile containing an archive of the site. (Or two > > > archives - one for the static portion and one for today's insert). > > > > Can you think up a reason why this isn't done with current webservers? > > And do these reasons still hold for Freenet? (You want to retrieve them > > monolithically, too, even though you only mention inserting above, right?) > > But web servers are reliable and fast. Freenet's unreliable and > slow. You can kill two birds with one stone by tarballing websites > into redundant splitfiles, but it'll be a nuisance when the tarballs > start growing uncomfortably large. Right. You trade reliability and latency against a larger download. OTOH, big files drop out quickly, and most files on a site will be small and unchanging, so it may not be good for reliability and certainly won't be good for getting old versions of the site, due to massively increased space usage. > > I think it's a net gain when used tastefully, and it has the > pleasant side-effect of enforcing compression. > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
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