On Friday 06 November 2009 19:45:08 Matthew Toseland wrote: > We can improve this by changing the metadata to include the exact number of > blocks in the final file at the top of the file. We would still have > multiple stages for some files from freesites, but for most we would > quickly reach the final stage, with an exact percentage, even if we are > actually fetching the first of thee layers of metadata. :)
Even though this means that reinserts of old files will result in different CHK URIs, I am strongly for adding a "total filesize" field to the metadata. I mean why the hell didn't we add it right from the beginning anyway? =) All other popular peer to peer apps can tell you how big a file is after you've added it, why shouldn't Freenet be able to do that? That will make everything very easy: Until the top block is loaded the percentage is "Unknown" and then we can display an exact percentage. Problem solved. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20091106/64504295/attachment.pgp>
