Author: Michael Rogers Date: To: tech Subject: Re: [Tech] Distributed file system using routing inspired by Freenet
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?
