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From: "Greg Wooledge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> John Goerzen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > As an addendum, if 0.4 can speak to an 0.3 node, could people just
> > keep up the 0.3 nodes for queries until they get cached by 0.4?
> Upside down speak you.
>
> Anyway, the 0.3 and 0.4 nodes won't talk to each other -- there are
> currently 2 different Freenet networks[0], and no compatibility across the
> 0.3/0.4 divide. The metadata format has changed. (There's also still
> some active debate about the exact 0.4 metadata format -- watch out for
> flying "/" and other loose punctuation floating around on the lists.)
The main reason why there isn't a salvation effort for 0.3 data is becuase
the storables fields (metadata for the entire document) are being changed in
such a way as to not only invalidate all old keys, but some of the fields in
the storables field as well. 0.3 content cannot surive a simple transfer
program to the 0.4 format.
> [0] Actually there may be more than that; we don't really know. Some of
> the older 0.4 node versions are incompatible with newer 0.4 nodes, so
> there may be some isolated micro-Freenets out there that won't talk to
> anybody else. Also some of the projects like Espra may have their own
> separate Freenets.
espra's freenet is actually a subset of the entire freenet. The network of
old 0.4 nodes can't actually talk to eachother completely and the network of
new nodes is about to die as well for the bleeding edge.
> --
> Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody."
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
> http://wooledge.org/~greg/ |
-Mathew
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