On Wednesday 20 August 2008 00:27, you wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > It grew significantly when we released 0.7. After that it's not clear. We 
only 
> > have very rough guesstimates as to size anyway... and it might be only 
1000 
> > nodes online at a time... but we're fairly sure that over a day there are 
at 
> > least 3000 to 5000 nodes online, at least that's what the swap stats say.
> >
> >   
> I heard 0.7 was a complete re-write, is that why? 

Why what?

> So if theare 1000  
> nodes online at any time, is it possible to estimate how much 
> information or data that may approximate?

Not accurately.

> > Once your identity is announced, you should be fine. There is a howto 
> > somewhere.
> >   
> I'll have a look at Thaw and FMS then..  The FAQ's and guides don't 
> provide much information, but perhaps I have overlooked something.

Hmmm, they don't? I thought there was some newbie info ...

> > The obvious thing is to just create a user and install into it. More 
> > sophisticated approaches you'd have to research a bit (this would still be 
> > able to read files). Java shouldn't get buffer overflows etc, although 
it's 
> > conceivable that an FCP bug might be exploitable to upload local files...
> >   
> Sounds pretty safe then, no less safe than running any other p2p 
> application on Linux or Windows then I suppose.  The 'Start FreeNet' 
> option that now appears in my Ubuntu menu - does that run the FreeNet 
> 'service' as 'root' or as the logged in user?  If I could run the 
> FreeNet node under another dedicated user, would the same cache / 
> datastore be accessible still?

Presumably as the logged-in user. Freenet should start automatically though, 
unless you've removed the cron job.

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