Most likely the second scenario will end up with all 16 keys on just a few
nodes.  So bad for propagation and/or retrievability.  Unless you can be
sure each key goes to a different node...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J Roberts" <[email protected]>
To: <devl at freenetproject.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] HTL vs FEC question


> cardhore:
> > Scenario one: I insert each block with an HTL of 4 which
> > effectively puts each block on four nodes.  This is a total of 16
> > uploads.  So there are a total of 4 unique keys.  Scenario two:  I
> > use some sort of algorithm, i.e. FEC, to compute 400% redundancy.
> > I insert each of these 16 blocks with an HTL of 1 which
> > effectively puts each block on one node.
>
> Insert effectiveness rises exponentially with HTL up to log(nodes).
>
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