On Sunday 10 August 2003 07:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nick, > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > I think that the trick is creating a distributed index, so that every node > can have access to a more or less complete and accurate index of all of the > files available on the LAN. It seems to me that this would be practical. > Because we're dealing with a number of files on the order of hundreds of > thousands, it seems like the index would take up well under 20mb per node.
Easy, let Frost handle that. > Does anyone have tips on how to best propogate that kind of index? I need > to keep in mind that not all of the nodes can be trusted. For instance, we > can't have one node reporting that all of the other nodes are offline, and > wiping the indexes. Freenet is DESIGNED to work in a non-trusted environment. > Also, after being installed, I would want the daemons to be pretty much > autonomous. I won't be able to easily manually stop and restart nodes if > something bad happens. To do that I expect to have to make some minor > additions to the program (or separate programs to package along with it). > The additions would be used to maintain the index. The only things I would worry about are 1. Making Freenet + Frost as easy as possible to install. (Probably both in a single installer) 2. What happens if the user updates Freenet to a new version? (From www.freenetproject.com) 3. What about computers being shutdown? _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
