> First of all, shouldn't segments be downloaded randomly like each of the > blocks are? Large downloads could get too unreliable after a few > segments if a lot of people stop downloading part way.
Yes they should, good observation. We do, however, need to be careful about memory usage (and, to a lesser extent, disk usage) when sewing the segments back together (it would be tempting to load them all into RAM at once and stick-em together, but that would clearly be a bad thing). Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian at locut.us Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ CEO, Cematics LLC http://cematics.com/ Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030305/4469de42/attachment.pgp>
