On Apr 9 2008, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> Well the problem is what to do with single blocks... A frost post is an 
> SSK plus usually a CHK for example. If a splitfile is inserted as a CHK, 
> there will be a single top level block for the CHK. Granted these are 
> more popular than the splitfile blocks...

Ah, I see what you mean, the top level can't be FECed because we don't want 
to have to use several keys to identify the file.

>> Good point, I guess it's a waste of bandwidth to store data on a 
>> transient node.
>
>But how would we implement that?

Don't send inserts to, or accept inserts from, peers unless they've been 
active for x of the last y hours? But I reckon it would annoy people to be 
told that they couldn't post a Frost message because their node wasn't 
reliable enough, it would cause the store to fill up even more slowly, and 
might it also have implications for anonymity?

Cheers,
Michael

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