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). > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
