On 2 Jun 2006, at 18:00, Jerome Flesch wrote: >>>> The main changes I would make to the librarian >>>> format right now would be: >>>> - Support splitting. (This is relevant to file indexes) > > I updated my format proposal on > http://wiki.freenetproject.org/AnotherFreenetIndexFormat to try to > fit your > requirements, but I still need some explanations on this point: > I don't really understand why indexes need to handle file > splitting: FCPv2 > specs specify that the node who does most of this work, no ?
Its a separate issue to file splitting. Right now there is just one index, which is ok while there are few websites on Freenet, but it is hardly a scalable solution. We need a way to split up the index such that every peer doesn't need to cache a copy of the entire index. Ian.
