On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 01:41:45PM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:43:34PM +0100, Anonymous wrote: > > > if you wanna check the fec status you can do it from a new menu in the > > > webinterface, which shows u the usual fec-downloading table. > > > > Hopefully we can come up with a more attractive/intuitive interface than > > the one we have right now. > > > > > > On this subject: One feature which was discussed but never implemented > > was that on downloading a FEC file, the node would reconstruct any > > chunks that DNFed, and reinsert them. Of course, this should occur in > > the background after the reconstructed file has been sent to the user. > > > This should occur *with* the user's consent; making failed block > reinsertion part of the interface. Doing this automatically leads to > problems like people inserting files with hideously large redundancy > and only inserting a few of the pieces. Not if we hardcode the redundancy. > > > This would dramatically improve the reliability of FEC encoded files. > > > > Ian. > > > Aren't FEC encoded files already supposed to be dramatically better > than regular splitfiles? Why don't we just make normal splitfiles > work better by improving freenet instead of fixing the symptom? Because if there are 300 blocks in a splitfile, the odds of one of them falling out has to be kept to a ridiculously low figure to guarantee that the file can be retrieved. Do the math. Or read Oskar's version in the devl archives. > > Thelema > -- > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raabu and Piisu > GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB >
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