On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:41:03PM +0100, degs wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2001 16:18, Timm Murray wrote: > > > On Thursday 25 October 2001 13:49, you wrote: > > > > 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?) > > > > > > Yes, I anticipated downloading the whole archive - I don't see how it > > > could work otherwise. > > > > > > The disadvantage is obviously that not all the site data in a site > > > archive might be needed to serve a given request and so some unnessessary > > > data transfer would take place and also the latency of getting the > > > initial page for a given site could increase. Presumably the added > > > redundancy would improve the chances of receiving a complete site and > > > might improve latency for receiving *all* of the site. > > > > It might be best to put pictures and such that appear on every page to be > > put in tarballs, while the individual pages are on their own (though > > preferably gziped). I can't think of a good excuse for not gzipping the > > individual pages, as long as clients support it transparently. Can we put gzip support into the metadata spec for individual files? > That's the sort of thing I had in mind - the details would depend on the > nature of the site. > > What is the current status of splitfiles in Freenet? They're not redundant > yet are they? but someone is working on it?
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