On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Gianni Johansson wrote:
> It's good to make the distinction because if you manage to get all the data
> blocks you don't need to decode at all.
bob the angry flower says "wrong,m wrong, wrong ,wrong, where did you
learn that??! wrong!!!" :-p. Seriously, this is a very bad thing to be
encouraging, for two reasons:
a) the checkblocks will fall oiff freenet - you should never be retrieving
this data significantly! (i wrote about that in the documentation i
wrote, I won't reepat that here)
> Client writers just don't want to deal with it. FEC support has been in CVS
> for almost a year and you are the first person who has attempted to write a
> client besides me.
I think that's got more to do with the fact that there was no
documentation, and hence it took me a solid week to work everything out to
the point where it worked where I tested it (and yes, before anyone asks,
I did try just asking GJ first. 4 times (this was back last march. I
also asked about the fproxy changes, to the same lack of result). it
seems that any email I send to GJ gets redirected to /dev/null :(). And
then I *still* got it wrong and didn't know until fproxy was patched,
which I found out about when people started bitching about my tools
breaking freenet.
Hell, I had to write *documentation* to get your attention :-p. Talk
about sinking to a new low :-p.
> > Should we be perhaps looking for a library which doens't suffer from
> these > problems as much as onion's library, however? The glass is
> half full man. The math works for files out to about 1G no problem
> even with segmentation for the current implementation.
>
> The OnionNetworks code works well for moderately sized files now!
> We should make it easily available.
I agree with this... i wasn't trying to suggest otherwise, it was just
random musings. I get emails asking me why it's still hard to insert iso's
into freenet :-p (hey, did you know that onionnetwork's c library will
bluescreen a winxp box when you feed it an iso? :-p)
> Segmenting reduces redundancy not striping. (see above)
okay, i got the two confused ^_^
- from fish with love.
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