On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:26:32AM +0000, Degory Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This might be a dumb question but is the native store encypted?
Nope, not currently. I am not sure whether it is appropriate to encrypt
it; please discuss. Anyway, it's more important to get the current set
of bugs out.
> 
> -- degs
> 
> On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:59, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > Hi. storeType=native has advanced to the point where wider testing would
> > be useful. Caveats:
> > a) It logs _TONS_ of stuff. Hawk, for example, has a 1GB logfile at this
> > instant, having run for a day (it will be reset before it overflows).
> > b) It still uses a single very large directory for all the keys in the
> > datastore, meaning that large stores and certain filesystems (FAT, ext2,
> > etc) won't get on well with it (especially with limited RAM).
> > c) Very large datastores have proportionately high memory usage, and
> > start-up time.
> > d) There are bugs, and I want help in finding them. Two that I have seen
> > are "Network Error", without it saying RNF or DNF, and corruption of
> > data while it is being streamed (after it has downloaded it is fine
> > though).
> > e) I may impose incompatible format changes in the near future, so don't
> > expect to keep your datastore forever.
> >
> > HOWTO:
> > Stop node.
> > Remove the monolithic datastore file store_<portnumber> or whatever
> > Set storeType=native in your freenet.conf
> > Start node.
> >
> > It will create a directory named after the datastore file, and populate
> > that. Talk to me at mtoseland at blueyonder.co.uk or #freenet if you have
> > any problems, bug reports etc. It is most useful if you use
> > logLevel=debug (but will produce huge logfiles and run a bit slow).
> 
> 

-- 
Matthew Toseland
mtoseland at blueyonder.co.uk
amphibian at sourceforge.net
Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker.
Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/11/02.
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