On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:54 PM, xor <xor at gmx.li> 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? > > 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.
Well, in addition to 3667 / 3369, there's also 3381: Better reinsert support. That is, optionally let the user insert the file with old-style metadata, to produce the same key. Evan Daniel
