On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 02:02:59AM +0200, Stefan Reich wrote:
> From: "Peter Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >We regularly get posts from clueless newbies saying we need permanent
> >files and also saying they've figured out a way to do them. They have
> >been consistantly wrong.
>
> It's obvious that total permanence for all files is nonsense.
>
> But Brad also sketched a system for how to decide which files should be
> thrown away first (and which not). And THAT's a question that Freenet has to
> solve one way or another.
>
> So I think he deserves a little more than just a sarcastic response.
>
> This list would benefit from a little less frosty discussion style anyway...
> :-/
If all he was proposing was a different way of weighing objects in the
DataStore (I gave his mail an honest attempt and understood nothing) then
why all the ranting and attacking (luddites etc)? Nobody has ever argued
that there is not more than one way to weigh the data, for example we have
had a long (and unresolved) argument regarding how the size of the data
should play in.
I think the general weariness of all the whiners who go on about permanent
files with neither rhyme nor reason as to how that could possibly work is
well justified. After all, the philosophy has always been that ideally a
file should never be lost from Freenet until there are more files then
there is room. If you are not going to delete data in that situation -
what are you going to do with it?
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