On Friday 06 November 2009 19:24:09 Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Friday 06 November 2009 18:54:50 xor wrote:
> > 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?
>
> We have it, but I'm not sure how reliably we add it. Also IIRC it is the
> decompressed length. We would want the compressed length, or ideally the
> total number of blocks including the intermediate layers.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> No, as I mentioned, stuff from freesites will involve fetching one splitfile
> and then fetching another. But yes, we should make these metadata changes.
>
https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=3667
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