On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:22:12AM +1300, David McNab wrote:
> From: "Jan-Thomas Czornack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > You can make larger nodes on Windows NT/2000 with NTFS. I tried it with
> > 5Gb and it worked fine.
>
> It's almost a case for converting my server over to win2k.
> Emphasis on 'almost'.
I really think that the emphasis on large datastores is misplaced. The
main scarce commodity is bandwidth, not datastore size. IMHO it is
preferable to have 5 100MB nodes, than one 500MB node. Nodes with
extremely large datastores will simply tend to become mirrors for the
whole of Freenet, and will find themselves being bogged down by requests
(since they will increasingly be able to respond immediately for more
and more requests, setting themselves as the DataSource, and encouraging
other nodes to connect to them, creating a feedback loop).
For this reason, I suggested a while ago that seednodes should have
small datastores, and be set to transient.
Ian.
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