It's not possible to provide "permanent" storage for free. Full stop, as far as I can tell. Because disks are finite, and flooding is possible.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:41:23PM +0000, Volodya wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > talking about the datastore, if Freenet hasn't modified its behaviour > > lately I recall the every stored key is bound to disappear sooner or > > later from all the datastores. > > > > This is good when seen a wise usage of available space, and this is > > similar to the way bittorrent works (unpopulated torrents eventually > > are bound to disappear). > > > > However this is an undesirable behaviour to those looking for rare stuff. > > > > The reason for these ramblings is as follows. In a single week two of > > my older HDs have started showing signs of death. This is bad. I had > > to buy bigger a fat new HD to backup the data. > > Imagine what would happen if a big HD suddenly fails? > > > > Personally I don't have the money to buy a tape streamer or to > > completely mirror my data. Burning DVDs is not a viable option: DVD > > are prone to fast deterioration as time passes, plus they are > > remarkably small, compared to a modern Hard Disk. > > > > Now, what would happen if key are never bound to expire in a freenet > > datastore? > > Then you would have a permanent remote backup of your precious data. > > A darknet could be made to work as a remarkable distributed and (not > > so strongly) encrypted multiuser network backup system. > > If I recall correctly, the datastore size determines when a key is > > about to expire. Given that I'm willing to dedicate a full encrypted > > HD as a datastore, I'd like to suggest the possibility of a Freenet > > branch with the option to disable key expiration and to stop storing > > keys when the datastore is full. > > > > sorry for the dumb request.. > > > > bye > > Inverse > > I don't think that anything is dumb in what you've written, but i don't think > that > Freenet's goal is to archive the content. The ultimate goal is to allow for > communication > and publication from the regimes where Free Speech doesn't protect the > particular idea or > data you are trying to communicate or publish. It is not to say that this > content must > stay available forever. > > In fact one of the reasons why i tell people that freenet is great is because > of the > karmikal balance on it. On the normal internet the more popular content dies > faster > (server has to pay more for the distribution) while on Freenet the more > popular content > will be last to go (it gets spread); that is just like in Bittorrent. > However, unlike in > Bittorrent, the act of downloading content actually spreads it, even if you > go offline > immediately after getting it. > > While what you propose would help to keep unpopular content online, it would > break this > sort of structure, and popular but new content would find it harder to > compete with the > old. I am not making judgement here as to what content is actually important, > but i think > that what you describe is perhaps very close to Frost's insert on demand. > Which at a very > low cost can keep content available. > > - Volodya > > > - -- > http://freedom.libsyn.com/ Voice of Freedom, Radical Podcast > http://freeselfdefence.info/ Self-defence wiki > http://www.kingstonstudents.org/ Kingston University students' forum > > "None of us are free until all of us are free." ~ Mihail Bakunin > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF+x0SuWy2EFICg+0RAvjqAKCj1wgpej79PjmVhG+rcbqBTb6LWACgpa9E > mkUA0umAlbYllD0nh2bFjkM= > =U278 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20070317/2dcbe132/attachment.pgp>
