On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:06 pm, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> My understanding is that 1MB was picked, just because it was as large as
> you could go in a single key.
IIRC, a CHK can have any size, but 1MB is generally the largest used because
it's the largest single key the default datastore size can hold.
> If you don't zip active links this is a non issue.
The whole point of an ActiveLink is to 1) indicate if the site is available
and 2) to precache the mapfile. If you're going to zip anything, the
ActiveLink should be there too.
> Well, things like NIMs wouldn't be zipped. MOST of the content on Freenet
> SHOULD NOT be zipped, and if it is done right it won't be. However there
> are places where it could help. Could you explain exactly what you mean
> when you say "manual pre-caching" and "automated pre-caching".
Indeed. The best sites for zipping are infrequently updated and contain a lot
of separate content, Thoughtcrime being possibly the best example.
TFEE, though, is one site I would NOT like to see zipped, because I rarely use
anything but the Recently Updated list, the KSK Logs, and the flog, and it
would suck to download 1MB every day on dial-up.
A ridiculous bandwidth/retrievability tradeoff for Thoughtcrime-like sites:
With each edition, only the new content (if content can *change*, it gets
less efficient) is inserted in a new zip, which is inserted under a CHK. That
way, if I selected something from the first edition, I would get the first
edition zip and everything else from the first edition.
Or just use zips for multiple-file documents, like the Unabomber manifesto and
the 9/11 de-debunking.
> Yes that would work, but it would be slow with high latency. Even if the
> latency were as low as the WWW it would not really be good enough to do this
> sort of thing. Having zips would allow you to have dosens possibly hundreds
> of VERY SMALL images on a site as part of a theme.
For all the important images on a site to be in a zip would be a good thing;
just an extension of multiple-file documents.
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