Author: toad Date: 2008-03-19 13:11:36 +0000 (Wed, 19 Mar 2008) New Revision: 18585
Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php Log: Many small blocks Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php 2008-03-19 13:10:23 UTC (rev 18584) +++ trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php 2008-03-19 13:11:36 UTC (rev 18585) @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ </p> </p><p><b id="fec">What is FEC?</b><br> -FEC stands for Forward Error Correction. When large files are inserted into Freenet, they are split into several small blocks -- this is called a <i>splitfile</i>. +FEC stands for Forward Error Correction. When large files are inserted into Freenet, they are split into many small blocks -- this is called a <i>splitfile</i>. FEC adds redundant check blocks to a splitfile, so that if some of the blocks fall out of the network or can't be found, you might still be able to retrieve enough of the file to reconstruct it.</p>
