[Tech] Distributed file system using routing inspired by Freenet
Colin Davis
colin at sq7.org
Thu Apr 10 05:40:49 UTC 2008
Just another stupid question from the perspective of a user- Is there a
reason why the number of redundant FEC blocks isn't be user-configurable?
"How redundant do you want your data to be? The more-redundant you
specify, the slower it will be to insert, but the more resilient the
data will be to network damage"
Faster Inserts -------------------[]------More Reliable Data
Users who want their data better propagated are likely to submit it to
multiple nodes anyway, increasing the total number of blocks.. But this
may end up having 3 copies of block A, and none of block B C D, so it
can't heal the file.
It just seems like any freenet-ettique behavior needs to be enforced by
the other clients observing behavior, rather than the original client
being trusted to do the right thing, or only insert in a certain way.
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