On Friday 24 April 2009 06:40:16 bbackde at googlemail.com wrote:
> Long CHK keys are ok for me, most important is that they are static
> and all inserts produces the same key.

Well, we will still have content types. Although using ?type=<mime type> is a 
plausible option.

> Will the CHK keys have a fix length?

Yes, for a given number of redundant top-blocks. At least to the same degree 
that we do now - do we pad the base64 data for each part of the key? If not 
it could occasionally be a bit less...
> 
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:06, Matthew Toseland
> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 April 2009 21:14:01 guido wrote:
> >> Am Donnerstag 23 April 2009 14:48:43 schrieb Matthew Toseland:
> >> > I would really appreciate input on option 2 i.e. how much of a problem 
are
> >> > long CHKs?
> >>
> >> If CHK key lengths as they are now are not bad enough to keep people from
> >> using them, then making them 50% longer won't be, either.
> >
> > Twice as long.
> >>
> >> Besides, making the pathname of the file a mandatory part of the key is
> > already
> >> having larger impact on average key lengths then this would.
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