On Wednesday 09 April 2008 17:20, Michael Rogers wrote: > 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.
Well, there *are* ways we could do that... > > >> 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? Yeah, that doesn't work. And detecting uptime is difficult on opennet anyway - you have to rely on what they tell you because of churn. > > Cheers, > Michael -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20080409/4bc22cd8/attachment.pgp>
